10-Q: Quarterly report [Sections 13 or 15(d)]
Published on May 10, 2010
UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON,
D. C. 20549
Form
10-Q
x QUARTERLY
REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF
1934
For the
quarterly period ended March 31, 2010
o TRANSITION
REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF
1934
For the
transition period from ____________ to _____________
Commission
file number: 0-11576
HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP, INC.
(Exact
Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
New York
|
13-3119827
|
(State
or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation
or Organization)
|
(I.R.S.
Employer Identification No.)
|
1450 Broadway, New York, New
York
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10018
|
(Address
of Principal Executive Offices)
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(Zip
Code)
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(212) 582-0900
(Registrant's
Telephone Number, Including Area Code)
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be
filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the
preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required
to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for
the past 90 days.
Yes x No ¨
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on
its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be
submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding
12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit
and post such files).
Yes x No ¨
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an
accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting
company. See the definitions of "large accelerated filer,"
"accelerated filer" and "smaller reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the
Exchange Act. (Check one):
Large
accelerated filer ¨
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Accelerated
filer x
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Non-accelerated
filer ¨
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Smaller
reporting company ¨
|
(Do not
check if a smaller reporting company)
Indicate by check mark whether the
registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange
Act).
Yes ¨ No x
Indicate
the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuer's classes of common
stock, as of the latest practicable date.
Class
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Outstanding at May 10,
2010
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Common
Stock, $0.01 par value per share
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30,864,899
shares
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Harris
& Harris Group, Inc.
Form
10-Q, March 31, 2010
Page
Number
PART
I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
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Item
1. Consolidated Financial Statements
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1
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Consolidated
Statements of Assets and Liabilities
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2
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Consolidated
Statements of Operations
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3
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Consolidated
Statements of Cash Flows
|
4
|
Consolidated
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
|
5
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Consolidated
Schedule of Investments
|
6
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Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements
|
33
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Financial
Highlights
|
42
|
Item
2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition
and
Results of Operations
|
43
|
Background
and Overview
|
43
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Historical
Investments
|
44
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Investment
Pace
|
44
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Importance
of Availability of Liquid Capital
|
46
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Involvement
with Portfolio Companies
|
48
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Commercialization
of Nanotechnology by Our Portfolio Companies
|
48
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Maturity
of Current Venture Capital Portfolio
|
51
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Current
Business Environment
|
53
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Valuation
of Investments
|
54
|
Investment
Objective
|
57
|
Results
of Operations
|
58
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Financial
Condition
|
61
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Liquidity
|
63
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Capital
Resources
|
63
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Critical
Accounting Policies
|
64
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Recent
Developments – Portfolio Companies
|
66
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Forward-Looking
Statements
|
67
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Item
3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market
Risk
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67
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Item
4. Controls and Procedures
|
69
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PART
II. OTHER INFORMATION
|
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Item
1A. Risk Factors
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70
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Item
5. Exhibits
|
71
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Signatures
|
72
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Exhibit
Index
|
73
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PART
I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item
1. Consolidated Financial Statements
The information furnished in the
accompanying consolidated financial statements reflects all adjustments that
are, in the opinion of management, necessary for a fair statement of the results
for the interim period presented.
Harris & Harris Group, Inc.® (the
"Company," "us," "our" and "we"), is an internally managed venture capital
company that has elected to operate as a business development company ("BDC")
under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "1940 Act"). Certain
information and disclosures normally included in the consolidated financial
statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the
United States of America ("GAAP") have been condensed or omitted as permitted by
Regulation S-X and Regulation S-K. The accompanying consolidated
financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated
financial statements and notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2009,
contained in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
2009.
In
September 1997, our Board of Directors approved a proposal to seek qualification
as a regulated investment company ("RIC") under Subchapter M of the Internal
Revenue Code (the "Code"). At that time, we were taxable under
Subchapter C of the Code (a "C Corporation"). We filed for the 1999
tax year to elect treatment as a RIC. In order to qualify as a RIC,
we must, in general, (1) annually, derive at least 90 percent of our gross
income from dividends, interest, gains from the sale of securities and similar
sources; (2) quarterly, meet certain investment diversification requirements;
and (3) annually, distribute at least 90 percent of our investment company
taxable income as a dividend. In addition to the requirement that we
must annually distribute at least 90 percent of our investment company taxable
income, we may either distribute or retain our net capital gain from
investments, but any net capital gain not distributed will be subject to
corporate income tax and the excise tax described below. We will be
subject to a four percent excise tax to the extent we fail to distribute at
least 98 percent of our annual net ordinary income and 98 percent of our capital
gain net income and would be subject to income tax to the extent we fail to
distribute 100 percent of our investment company taxable income.
Because
of the specialized nature of our investment portfolio, we generally can satisfy
the diversification requirements under Subchapter M of the Code if we receive a
certification from the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") that we are
"principally engaged in the furnishing of capital to other corporations which
are principally engaged in the development or exploitation of inventions,
technological improvements, new processes, or products not previously generally
available."
On June
9, 2009, we received SEC certification for 2008, permitting us to qualify for
RIC treatment for 2008 (as we had for the years 1999 through 2007) pursuant to
Section 851(e) of the Code. Although the SEC certification for 2008
was issued, there can be no assurance that we will qualify for or receive such
certification for subsequent years (to the extent we need additional
certification as a result of changes in our portfolio) or that we will actually
qualify for Subchapter M treatment in subsequent years. On April 23,
2010, we applied for SEC certification for 2009. We qualified for RIC
treatment in 2009 even without certification. In addition, under
certain circumstances, even if we qualified for Subchapter M treatment in a
given year, we might take action in a subsequent year to ensure that we would be
taxed in that subsequent year as a C Corporation, rather than as a
RIC. Because Subchapter M does not permit deduction of operating
expenses against net capital gain, it is not clear that the Company and its
shareholders have paid less in taxes since 1999 than they would have paid had
the Company remained a C Corporation.
1
HARRIS
& HARRIS GROUP, INC.
CONSOLIDATED
STATEMENTS OF ASSETS AND
LIABILITIES
|
ASSETS
March
31, 2010
|
December
31, 2009
|
|||||||
(Unaudited)
|
||||||||
Investments,
in portfolio securities at value:
|
||||||||
Unaffiliated
privately held companies
|
||||||||
(cost:
$31,002,395 and $26,977,200, respectively)
|
$ | 29,752,075 | $ | 21,656,436 | ||||
Unaffiliated
publicly traded securities
|
||||||||
(cost:
$547,304 and $298,827, respectively)
|
552,454 | 226,395 | ||||||
Non-controlled
affiliated privately held companies
|
||||||||
(cost:
$51,546,166 and $54,864,948, respectively)
|
45,559,645 | 50,297,220 | ||||||
Controlled
affiliated privately held companies (cost: $11,032,574
|
||||||||
and
$10,248,932, respectively)
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7,703,226 | 5,843,430 | ||||||
Total,
investments in privately held and publicly
|
||||||||
traded
securities at value
|
||||||||
(cost:
$94,128,439 and $92,389,907, respectively)
|
$ | 83,567,400 | $ | 78,023,481 | ||||
Investments,
in U.S. Treasury obligations at value
|
||||||||
(cost: $53,163,696 and $55,960,024, respectively)
|
53,160,430 | 55,947,581 | ||||||
Cash
|
197,294 | 1,611,465 | ||||||
Restricted
funds
|
2,000 | 2,000 | ||||||
Receivable
from portfolio company
|
0 | 28,247 | ||||||
Interest
receivable
|
6 | 25,832 | ||||||
Prepaid
expenses
|
338,542 | 94,129 | ||||||
Receivable
from unsettled trade
|
799,925 | 0 | ||||||
Other
assets
|
691,853 | 376,366 | ||||||
Total
assets
|
$ | 138,757,450 | $ | 136,109,101 |
LIABILITIES & NET
ASSETS
|
||||||||
Post
retirement plan liabilities
|
$ | 1,402,894 | $ | 1,369,843 | ||||
Accounts
payable and accrued liabilities
|
672,902 | 579,162 | ||||||
Deferred
rent
|
321,372 | 1,838 | ||||||
Total
liabilities
|
2,397,168 | 1,950,843 | ||||||
Net
assets
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$ | 136,360,282 | $ | 134,158,258 | ||||
Net
assets are comprised of:
|
||||||||
Preferred
stock, $0.10 par value,
|
||||||||
2,000,000
shares authorized; none issued
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$ | 0 | $ | 0 | ||||
Common
stock, $0.01 par value, 45,000,000 shares authorized at
|
||||||||
03/31/10
and 12/31/09; 32,690,986 issued at 03/31/10
|
||||||||
and
32,688,333 issued at 12/31/09
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326,911 | 326,884 | ||||||
Additional
paid in capital (Note 8)
|
206,491,383 | 205,977,117 | ||||||
Accumulated
net operating and realized loss
|
(56,488,176 | ) | (54,361,343 | ) | ||||
Accumulated
unrealized depreciation of investments
|
(10,564,305 | ) | (14,378,869 | ) | ||||
Treasury
stock, at cost (1,828,740 shares at 03/31/10 and 12/31/09)
|
(3,405,531 | ) | (3,405,531 | ) | ||||
Net
assets
|
$ | 136,360,282 | $ | 134,158,258 | ||||
Shares
outstanding
|
30,862,246 | 30,859,593 | ||||||
Net
asset value per outstanding share
|
$ | 4.42 | $ | 4.35 |
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
2
HARRIS
& HARRIS GROUP, INC.
CONSOLIDATED
STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(Unaudited)
|
Three
Months Ended
|
Three
Months Ended
|
|||||||
March
31, 2010
|
March
31, 2009
|
|||||||
Investment
income:
|
||||||||
Interest
from:
|
||||||||
Fixed-income
securities and bridge notes (Note 3)
|
$ | 73,073 | $ | (35,899 | ) | |||
Miscellaneous
income
|
6,000 | 12,338 | ||||||
Total
investment income (loss)
|
79,073 | (23,561 | ) | |||||
Expenses:
|
||||||||
Salaries,
benefits and stock-based
|
||||||||
compensation
(Note 6)
|
1,389,277 | 1,387,340 | ||||||
Administration
and operations
|
282,522 | 290,435 | ||||||
Professional
fees
|
243,369 | 215,250 | ||||||
Rent
(Note 3)
|
77,215 | 78,063 | ||||||
Directors'
fees and expenses
|
95,361 | 84,509 | ||||||
Depreciation
|
11,969 | 12,859 | ||||||
Custody
fees
|
24,000 | 6,862 | ||||||
Lease
termination costs (Note 3)
|
68,038 | 0 | ||||||
Total
expenses
|
2,191,751 | 2,075,318 | ||||||
Net
operating loss
|
(2,112,678 | ) | (2,098,879 | ) | ||||
Net
realized loss:
|
||||||||
Realized
loss from investments:
|
||||||||
Unaffiliated
companies
|
0 | (3,288 | ) | |||||
Non-controlled
affiliated companies
|
0 | 0 | ||||||
Controlled
affiliated companies
|
0 | 0 | ||||||
U.S.
Treasury obligations/other
|
(11,523 | ) | (325 | ) | ||||
Realized loss from
investments
|
(11,523 | ) | (3,613 | ) | ||||
Income
tax expense (Note 7)
|
2,632 | 380 | ||||||
Net realized
loss
|
(14,155 | ) | (3,993 | ) | ||||
Net
decrease in unrealized
|
||||||||
depreciation
on investments:
|
||||||||
Change
on investments held
|
3,814,564 | 1,151,448 | ||||||
Net decrease in
unrealized
|
||||||||
depreciation
on investments
|
3,814,564 | 1,151,448 | ||||||
Net
increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from
operations:
|
||||||||
Total
|
$ | 1,687,731 | $ | (951,424 | ) | |||
Per average basic and diluted
outstanding share
|
$ | 0.05 | $ | (0.04 | ) | |||
Average
outstanding shares
|
30,859,888 | 25,859,573 |
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
3
HARRIS
& HARRIS GROUP, INC.
CONSOLIDATED
STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(Unaudited)
|
Three
Months Ended
|
Three
Months Ended
|
|||||||
March
31, 2010
|
March
31, 2009
|
|||||||
Cash
flows (used in) provided by operating activities:
|
||||||||
Net
increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from
operations
|
$ | 1,687,731 | $ | (951,424 | ) | |||
Adjustments
to reconcile net increase (decrease) in net assets
|
||||||||
resulting
from operations to net cash used in
|
||||||||
operating
activities:
|
||||||||
Net
realized and unrealized (gain) on investments
|
(3,803,041 | ) | (1,147,835 | ) | ||||
Depreciation
of fixed assets, amortization of premium or
|
||||||||
discount
on U.S. government securities, and bridge note interest
|
(41,107 | ) | 86,269 | |||||
Stock-based
compensation expense
|
553,272 | 635,638 | ||||||
Changes
in assets and liabilities:
|
||||||||
Restricted
funds
|
0 | (618 | ) | |||||
Receivable
from portfolio company
|
28,247 | 0 | ||||||
Interest
receivable
|
12,589 | 54,660 | ||||||
Receivable
from investments sold
|
(799,925 | ) | 0 | |||||
Prepaid
expenses
|
(244,413 | ) | 137,680 | |||||
Other
assets
|
(260,892 | ) | 3,312 | |||||
Post
retirement plan liabilities
|
33,051 | 30,981 | ||||||
Accounts
payable and accrued liabilities
|
93,740 | (131,084 | ) | |||||
Deferred
rent
|
319,534 | (1,576 | ) | |||||
Net
cash used in operating activities
|
(2,421,214 | ) | (1,283,997 | ) | ||||
Cash
flows from investing activities:
|
||||||||
Purchase
of U.S. government securities
|
(2,399,293 | ) | (52,334,768 | ) | ||||
Sale
of U.S. government securities
|
5,199,533 | 53,892,347 | ||||||
Investment
in venture capital investments
|
(1,675,058 | ) | (723,176 | ) | ||||
Proceeds
from conversion of bridge note
|
1,356 | 0 | ||||||
Purchase
of fixed assets
|
(80,516 | ) | (1,313 | ) | ||||
Net
cash provided by investing activities
|
1,046,022 | 833,090 | ||||||
Cash
flows from financing activities:
|
||||||||
Proceeds
from stock option exercises
|
9,949 | 0 | ||||||
Payment
of offering costs
|
(48,928 | ) | 0 | |||||
Net
cash used in financing activities
|
(38,979 | ) | 0 | |||||
Net
decrease in cash:
|
||||||||
Cash
at beginning of the period
|
1,611,465 | 692,309 | ||||||
Cash
at end of the period
|
197,294 | 241,402 | ||||||
Net
decrease in cash
|
$ | (1,414,171 | ) | $ | (450,907 | ) | ||
Supplemental
disclosures of cash flow information:
|
||||||||
Income
taxes paid
|
$ | 2,632 | $ | 380 |
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
4
HARRIS
& HARRIS GROUP, INC.
CONSOLIDATED
STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS
|
Three
Months Ended
|
Year
Ended
|
|||||||
March
31, 2010
|
December
31, 2009
|
|||||||
(Unaudited)
|
||||||||
Changes
in net assets from operations:
|
||||||||
Net
operating loss
|
$ | (2,112,678 | ) | $ | (8,761,215 | ) | ||
Net
realized loss on investments
|
(14,155 | ) | (11,105,577 | ) | ||||
Net
decrease in unrealized depreciation
|
||||||||
on
investments as a result of sales
|
0 | 11,090,579 | ||||||
Net
decrease in unrealized depreciation
|
||||||||
on
investments held
|
3,814,564 | 8,627,748 | ||||||
Net
increase (decrease) in net assets resulting
|
||||||||
from
operations
|
1,687,731 | (148,465 | ) | |||||
Changes
in net assets from capital
|
||||||||
stock
transactions:
|
||||||||
Issuance
of common stock upon the
|
||||||||
exercise
of stock options
|
27 | 1,125 | ||||||
Issuance
of common stock on offering
|
0 | 48,875 | ||||||
Additional
paid-in capital on common
|
||||||||
stock
issued and options exercised
|
(39,006 | ) | 21,636,090 | |||||
Stock-based
compensation expense
|
553,272 | 3,089,520 | ||||||
Net
increase in net assets resulting from
|
||||||||
capital
stock transactions
|
514,293 | 24,775,610 | ||||||
Net
increase in net assets
|
2,202,024 | 24,627,145 | ||||||
Net
assets:
|
||||||||
Beginning
of the period
|
134,158,258 | 109,531,113 | ||||||
End
of the period
|
$ | 136,360,282 | $ | 134,158,258 |
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
5
HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP,
INC.
CONSOLIDATED
SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS AS OF MARCH 31, 2010
(Unaudited)
|
Method
of
|
Shares/
|
||||||||
Valuation
(1)
|
Principal
|
Value
|
|||||||
Investments
in Unaffiliated Companies (2)(3)(4) – 22.2% of
|
|||||||||
net
assets at value
|
|||||||||
Private
Placement Portfolio (Illiquid) – 21.8% of net assets
|
|||||||||
at
value
|
|||||||||
BioVex
Group, Inc. (5)(6)(7)(8) -- Developing novel biologics
|
|||||||||
for
treatment of cancer and infectious disease
|
|||||||||
Series
E Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
2,799,552 | $ | 1,042,862 | |||||
Series
G Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
3,738,004 | 627,985 | ||||||
Warrants
at $0.21 expiring 11/5/16
|
( I
)
|
285,427 | 18,838 | ||||||
1,689,685 | |||||||||
Bridgelux,
Inc. (5)(6) -- Manufacturing high-power light
|
|||||||||
emitting
diodes (LEDs) and arrays
|
|||||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,861,504 | 2,345,495 | ||||||
Series
C Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
2,130,699 | 2,684,681 | ||||||
Series
D Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
999,999 | 1,259,999 | ||||||
Warrants
at $0.7136 expiring 12/31/14
|
( I
)
|
163,900 | 135,218 | ||||||
Warrants
at $1.50 expiring 8/26/14
|
( I
)
|
166,665 | 101,332 | ||||||
6,526,725 | |||||||||
Cobalt
Technologies, Inc. (5)(6)(7)(9) -- Developing processes
for
|
|||||||||
making
biobutanol through biomass fermentation
|
|||||||||
Series
C Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
352,112 | 375,000 | ||||||
D-Wave
Systems, Inc. (5)(6)(7)(10) -- Developing high-
|
|||||||||
performance
quantum computing systems
|
|||||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,144,869 | 938,620 | ||||||
Series
C Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
450,450 | 369,301 | ||||||
Series
D Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,533,395 | 1,257,153 | ||||||
2,565,074 | |||||||||
Molecular
Imprints, Inc. (5)(6) -- Manufacturing nanoimprint
|
|||||||||
lithography
capital equipment
|
|||||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,333,333 | 2,999,999 | ||||||
Series
C Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,250,000 | 2,812,500 | ||||||
Warrants
at $2.00 expiring 12/31/11
|
( I
)
|
125,000 | 155,375 | ||||||
5,967,874 |
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
|
6
HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP,
INC.
CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF
INVESTMENTS AS OF MARCH 31,
2010
(Unaudited)
|
Method
of
|
Shares/
|
||||||||
Valuation
(1)
|
Principal
|
Value
|
|||||||
Investments
in Unaffiliated Companies (2)(3)(4) – 22.2% of
|
|||||||||
net
assets at value (Cont.)
|
|||||||||
Private
Placement Portfolio (Illiquid) – 21.8% of net assets
|
|||||||||
at
value (Cont.)
|
|||||||||
Nanosys,
Inc. (5)(6) -- Developing inorganic materials
|
|||||||||
and
devices based on nanowires and quantum dots
|
|||||||||
Series
C Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
803,428 | $ | 1,185,056 | |||||
Series
D Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,016,950 | 1,500,001 | ||||||
2,685,057 | |||||||||
Nantero,
Inc. (5)(6)(7) -- Developing a high-density, nonvolatile,
|
|||||||||
random
access memory chip, enabled by carbon nanotubes
|
|||||||||
Series
A Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
345,070 | 1,046,908 | ||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
207,051 | 628,172 | ||||||
Series
C Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
188,315 | 571,329 | ||||||
2,246,409 | |||||||||
NeoPhotonics
Corporation (5)(6) -- Developing and manufacturing
|
|||||||||
optical
devices and components
|
|||||||||
Common
Stock
|
(M)
|
1,130,440 | 1,030,961 | ||||||
Series
1 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,831,256 | 1,670,105 | ||||||
Series
2 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
741,898 | 676,611 | ||||||
Series
3 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
2,750,000 | 2,508,000 | ||||||
Series
X Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
8,923 | 1,427,680 | ||||||
7,313,357 | |||||||||
Polatis,
Inc. (5)(6)(7) -- Developing MEMS-based optical
|
|||||||||
networking
components
|
|||||||||
Series
A-1 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
16,775 | 0 | ||||||
Series
A-2 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
71,611 | 0 | ||||||
Series
A-4 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
4,774 | 0 | ||||||
Series
A-5 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
16,438 | 0 | ||||||
0 | |||||||||
PolyRemedy,
Inc. (5)(6)(7) -- Developing a robotic
|
|||||||||
manufacturing
platform for wound treatment patches
|
|||||||||
Series
B-1 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
287,647 | 23,467 | ||||||
Series
B-2 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
676,147 | 30,427 | ||||||
53,894 |
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
|
7
HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP,
INC.
CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF
INVESTMENTS AS OF MARCH 31,
2010
(Unaudited)
|
Method
of
|
Shares/
|
||||||||
Valuation
(1)
|
Principal
|
Value
|
|||||||
Investments
in Unaffiliated Companies (2)(3)(4) – 22.2% of
|
|||||||||
net
assets at value (Cont.)
|
|||||||||
Private
Placement Portfolio (Illiquid) – 21.8% of net assets
|
|||||||||
at
value (Cont.)
|
|||||||||
Siluria
Technologies, Inc. (5)(6)(7) -- Developing nanomaterials
|
|||||||||
for
manufacturing of chemicals
|
|||||||||
Series
S-2 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
612,061 | $ | 204,000 | |||||
TetraVitae
Bioscience, Inc. (5)(6)(7)(11) -- Developing methods
|
|||||||||
of
producing alternative chemicals and fuels through biomass
|
|||||||||
fermentation
|
|||||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
118,804 | 125,000 | ||||||
Total
Unaffiliated Private Placement Portfolio (cost:
$31,002,395)
|
$ | 29,752,075 |
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
|
8
HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP,
INC.
CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF
INVESTMENTS AS OF MARCH 31,
2010
(Unaudited)
|
Method
of
|
Shares/
|
||||||||
Valuation
(1)
|
Principal
|
Value
|
|||||||
Publicly
Traded Portfolio – 0.4% of net assets
|
|||||||||
at
value
|
|||||||||
Orthovita,
Inc. (6) -- Developing materials and devices
|
|||||||||
for
orthopedic medical implant applications
|
|||||||||
Common
Stock
|
(M)
|
93,100 | $ | 396,606 | |||||
Satcon
Technology Corporation (6)(12) – Developing power
|
|||||||||
conversion
solutions and providing system design services
|
|||||||||
for
utility-scale renewable energy plants
|
|||||||||
Common
Stock
|
(M)
|
64,400 | 155,848 | ||||||
Total
Unaffiliated Publicly Traded Portfolio (cost: $547,304)
|
$ | 552,454 | |||||||
Total
Investments in Unaffiliated Companies (cost: $31,549,699)
|
$ | 30,304,529 |
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
|
9
HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP,
INC.
CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF
INVESTMENTS AS OF MARCH 31, 2010
(Unaudited)
|
Method
of
|
Shares/
|
||||||||
Valuation (1)
|
Principal
|
Value
|
|||||||
Investments
in Non-Controlled Affiliated Companies (2)(13) –
|
|||||||||
33.4%
of net assets at value
|
|||||||||
Private Placement
Portfolio (Illiquid) – 33.4% of net
assets
|
|||||||||
at
value
|
|||||||||
ABS
Materials, Inc. (5)(6)(7)(12) -- Developing
nano-structured
|
|||||||||
materials
for environmental remediation and the petroleum industry
|
|||||||||
Series
A Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
250,000 | $ | 250,000 | |||||
Adesto
Technologies Corporation (5)(6)(7) -- Developing
low-power,
|
|||||||||
high-performance
memory devices
|
|||||||||
Series
A Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
6,547,619 | 2,420,000 | ||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
5,952,381 | 2,200,000 | ||||||
4,620,000 | |||||||||
Cambrios
Technologies Corporation (5)(6)(7) -- Developing
|
|||||||||
nanowire-enabled
electronic materials for the display industry
|
|||||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,294,025 | 647,013 | ||||||
Series
C Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,300,000 | 650,000 | ||||||
Series
D Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
515,756 | 257,878 | ||||||
1,554,891 | |||||||||
Contour
Energy Systems, Inc. (5)(6)(7)(14) -- Developing batteries
using
|
|||||||||
nanostructured
materials
|
|||||||||
Series
A Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
2,565,798 | 2,822,378 | ||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
812,500 | 1,300,000 | ||||||
4,122,378 | |||||||||
Crystal
IS, Inc. (5)(6) -- Developing single-crystal
|
|||||||||
aluminum
nitride substrates for light-emitting diodes
|
|||||||||
Common
Stock
|
(M)
|
3,994,468 | 0 | ||||||
Warrants
at $0.78 expiring 05/05/13
|
( I
)
|
15,231 | 0 | ||||||
Warrants
at $0.78 expiring 05/12/13
|
( I
)
|
2,350 | 0 | ||||||
Warrants
at $0.78 expiring 08/08/13
|
( I
)
|
4,396 | 0 | ||||||
0 |
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
10
HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP,
INC.
CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF
INVESTMENTS AS OF MARCH 31, 2010
(Unaudited)
|
Method
of
|
Shares/
|
||||||||
Valuation (1)
|
Principal
|
Value
|
|||||||
Investments
in Non-Controlled Affiliated Companies (2)(13) –
|
|||||||||
33.4%
of net assets at value (Cont.)
|
|||||||||
Private Placement
Portfolio (Illiquid) – 33.4% of net
assets
|
|||||||||
at
value (Cont.)
|
|||||||||
Ensemble
Discovery Corporation (5)(6)(15) -- Developing
DNA-
|
|||||||||
Programmed
ChemistryTM for the discovery of new classes
of
|
|||||||||
therapeutics
|
|||||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,449,275 | $ | 2,000,000 | |||||
Unsecured
Convertible Bridge Note (including interest)
|
(M)
|
$ | 299,169 | 331,472 | |||||
2,331,472 | |||||||||
Enumeral
Technologies, Inc. (5)(6)(7) -- Developing therapeutics
|
|||||||||
and
diagnostics through functional assaying of single cells
|
|||||||||
Unsecured
Convertible Bridge Note (including interest)
|
(M)
|
$ | 250,000 | 255,425 | |||||
Innovalight,
Inc. (5)(6)(7) -- Developing solar power
|
|||||||||
products
enabled by silicon-based nanomaterials
|
|||||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
16,666,666 | 2,969,667 | ||||||
Series
C Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
5,810,577 | 1,276,457 | ||||||
Series
D Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
4,046,974 | 721,090 | ||||||
4,967,214 | |||||||||
Kovio,
Inc. (5)(6) -- Developing semiconductor products
|
|||||||||
using
printed electronics and thin-film technologies
|
|||||||||
Series
C Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
2,500,000 | 640,313 | ||||||
Series
D Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
800,000 | 204,900 | ||||||
Series
E Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,200,000 | 307,350 | ||||||
Warrants
at $1.25 expiring 12/31/12
|
( I
)
|
355,880 | 29,538 | ||||||
1,182,101 | |||||||||
Mersana
Therapeutics, Inc. (5)(6)(7) -- Developing treatments for
|
|||||||||
cancer
based on novel drug delivery polymers
|
|||||||||
Series
A Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
68,451 | 136,902 | ||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
866,500 | 1,733,000 | ||||||
Unsecured
Convertible Bridge Note (including interest)
|
(M)
|
$ | 821,975 | 899,020 | |||||
Warrants
at $2.00 expiring 10/21/10
|
( I
)
|
91,625 | 57,082 | ||||||
|
|||||||||
2,826,004 |
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
11
HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP,
INC.
CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF
INVESTMENTS AS OF MARCH 31, 2010
(Unaudited)
|
Method
of
|
Shares/
|
||||||||
Valuation
(1)
|
Principal
|
Value
|
|||||||
Investments
in Non-Controlled Affiliated Companies (2)(13) –
|
|||||||||
33.4%
of net assets at value (Cont.)
|
|||||||||
Private Placement
Portfolio (Illiquid) – 33.4% of net
assets
|
|||||||||
at
value (Cont.)
|
|||||||||
Metabolon,
Inc. (5)(6) -- Developing service and diagnostic products
|
|||||||||
through
the use of a metabolomics, or biochemical, profiling
platform
|
|||||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
371,739 | $ | 1,087,870 | |||||
Series
B-1 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
148,696 | 435,149 | ||||||
Series
C Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | ||||||
Warrants
at $1.15 expiring 3/25/15
|
( I
)
|
74,348 | 112,921 | ||||||
2,635,940 | |||||||||
NanoGram
Corporation (5)(6) -- Developing solar power products
|
|||||||||
enabled
by silicon-based nanomaterials
|
|||||||||
Common
Stock
|
(M)
|
2,988,437 | 0 | ||||||
0 | |||||||||
Nextreme
Thermal Solutions, Inc. (5)(6) -- Developing thin-film
|
|||||||||
thermoelectric
devices for cooling and energy conversion
|
|||||||||
Series
A Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
17,500 | 1,312,500 | ||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
4,870,244 | 1,991,443 | ||||||
3,303,943 | |||||||||
Questech
Corporation (5)(6) -- Manufacturing and marketing
|
|||||||||
proprietary
metal and stone decorative tiles
|
|||||||||
Common
Stock
|
(M)
|
655,454 | 432,600 | ||||||
Solazyme,
Inc. (5)(6)(7) -- Developing algal biodiesel, industrial
|
|||||||||
chemicals
and specialty ingredients based on synthetic biology
|
|||||||||
Series
A Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
988,204 | 4,978,157 | ||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
495,246 | 2,494,841 | ||||||
Series
C Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
651,309 | 3,281,021 | ||||||
10,754,019 |
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
|
12
HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP,
INC.
CONSOLIDATED
SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS AS OF MARCH 31, 2010
(Unaudited)
|
Method
of
|
Shares/
|
||||||||
Valuation
(1)
|
Principal
|
Value
|
|||||||
Investments
in Non-Controlled Affiliated Companies (2)(13) –
|
|||||||||
33.4%
of net assets at value (Cont.)
|
|||||||||
Private Placement
Portfolio (Illiquid) – 33.4% of net
assets
|
|||||||||
at
value (Cont.)
|
|||||||||
Xradia,
Inc. (5)(6) -- Designing, manufacturing and selling
ultra-high
|
|||||||||
resolution
3D x-ray microscopes and fluorescence imaging systems
|
|||||||||
Series
D Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
3,121,099 | $ | 6,323,658 | |||||
Total
Non-Controlled Private Placement Portfolio (cost:
$51,546,166)
|
$ | 45,559,645 | |||||||
Total
Investments in Non-Controlled Affiliated Companies (cost:
$51,546,166)
|
$ | 45,559,645 |
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
|
13
HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP,
INC.
CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF
INVESTMENTS AS OF MARCH 31, 2010
(Unaudited)
|
Method
of
|
Shares/
|
||||||||
Valuation
(1)
|
Principal
|
Value
|
|||||||
Investments
in Controlled Affiliated Companies (2)(16) –
|
|||||||||
5.6%
of net assets at value
|
|||||||||
Private Placement
Portfolio (Illiquid) – 5.6%
of
|
|||||||||
net
assets at value
|
|||||||||
Ancora
Pharmaceuticals Inc. (5)(6)(7) -- Developing synthetic
|
|||||||||
carbohydrates for pharmaceutical
applications
|
|||||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,663,808 | $ | 17,375 | |||||
Series
C Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
2,066,051 | 1,239,631 | ||||||
Secured
Convertible Bridge Note (including interest)
|
(M)
|
$ | 500,000 | 505,479 | |||||
1,762,485 | |||||||||
Laser
Light Engines, Inc. (5)(6)(7) -- Manufacturing solid-state
light
|
|||||||||
sources
for digital cinema and large-venue projection displays
|
|||||||||
Series
A Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
7,499,062 | 1,000,000 | ||||||
Secured
Convertible Bridge Note (including interest)
|
(M)
|
$ | 1,640,000 | 1,712,278 | |||||
2,712,278 | |||||||||
SiOnyx,
Inc. (5)(6)(7)(17) -- Developing silicon-based
optoelectronic
|
|||||||||
products
enabled by its proprietary "Black Silicon"
|
|||||||||
Series
A Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
233,499 | 101,765 | ||||||
Series
A-1 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
2,966,667 | 1,292,948 | ||||||
Series
A-2 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
4,207,537 | 1,833,750 | ||||||
3,228,463 | |||||||||
Total
Controlled Private Placement Portfolio (cost: $11,032,574)
|
$ | 7,703,226 | |||||||
Total
Investments in Controlled Affiliated Companies (cost:
$11,032,574)
|
$ | 7,703,226 | |||||||
Total
Private Placement and Publicly Traded Portfolio (cost:
$94,128,439)
|
$ | 83,567,400 |
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
|
14
HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP,
INC.
CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF
INVESTMENTS AS OF MARCH 31, 2010
(Unaudited)
|
Method
of
|
Shares/
|
||||||||
Valuation
(1)
|
Principal
|
Value
|
|||||||
U.S.
Government Securities (18) – 38.9% of net assets at value
|
|||||||||
U.S.
Treasury Bill -- due date 04/22/10
|
(M)
|
$ | 9,200,000 | $ | 9,199,172 | ||||
U.S.
Treasury Bill -- due date 06/17/10
|
(M)
|
43,975,000 | 43,961,258 | ||||||
Total
Investments in U.S. Government Securities (cost:
$53,163,696)
|
$ | 53,160,430 | |||||||
Total
Investments (cost: $147,292,135)
|
$ | 136,727,830 |
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
|
15
HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP,
INC.
CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF
INVESTMENTS AS OF MARCH 31, 2010
(Unaudited)
|
Notes to
Consolidated Schedule of Investments
(1)
|
See
Footnote to Consolidated Schedule of Investments on page 29 for a
description of the Valuation
Procedures.
|
(2)
|
Investments
in unaffiliated companies consist of investments in which we own less than
five percent of the voting shares of the portfolio
company. Investments in non-controlled affiliated companies
consist of investments in which we own five percent or more, but less than
25 percent, of the voting shares of the portfolio company, or where we
hold one or more seats on the portfolio company’s Board of Directors but
do not control the company. Investments in controlled
affiliated companies consist of investments in which we own 25 percent or
more of the voting shares of the portfolio company or otherwise control
the company.
|
(3)
|
The
aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes of investments in
unaffiliated private companies is $31,002,395. The gross
unrealized appreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is
$5,399,816. The gross unrealized depreciation based on the tax cost for
these securities is $6,650,136.
|
(4)
|
The
aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes of investments in
unaffiliated publicly traded companies is $547,304. The gross
unrealized appreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is
$5,797. The gross unrealized depreciation based on the tax cost
for these securities is $647.
|
(5)
|
We
are subject to legal restrictions on the sale of this
investment.
|
(6)
|
Represents
a non-income producing security. Equity investments that have
not paid dividends within the last 12 months are considered to be
non-income producing.
|
(7)
|
These
investments are development-stage companies. A
development-stage company is defined as a company that is devoting
substantially all of its efforts to establishing a new business, and
either it has not yet commenced its planned principal operations, or it
has commenced such operations but has not realized significant revenue
from them.
|
(8)
|
With
our purchase of Series E Convertible Preferred Stock of BioVex, we
received a warrant to purchase a number of shares of common stock of
BioVex as determined by dividing 624,999.99 by the price per share at
which the common stock is offered and sold to the public in connection
with the initial public offering ("IPO"). The ability to exercise
this warrant is therefore contingent on BioVex completing successfully an
IPO before the expiration date of the warrant on September 27,
2012. The exercise price of this warrant shall be 110 percent
of the IPO price.
|
(9)
|
Cobalt
Technologies, Inc., also does business as Cobalt
Biofuels.
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of this consolidated
schedule.
16
HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP,
INC.
CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF
INVESTMENTS AS OF MARCH 31, 2010
(Unaudited)
|
(10)
|
D-Wave
Systems, Inc., is located and is doing business primarily in
Canada. We invested in D-Wave Systems, Inc., through
D-Wave USA, a Delaware company. Our investment is denominated
in Canadian dollars and is subject to foreign currency
translation. See "Note 3. Summary of Significant Accounting
Policies."
|
(11)
|
With
our purchase of the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock of TetraVitae
Bioscience, Inc., we received the right to purchase, at a price of
$2.63038528 per share, a number of shares in the Series C financing equal
to the number of shares of Series B Preferred Stock purchased. The
ability to exercise this right is contingent on TetraVitae Bioscience
completing successfully a subsequent round of
financing.
|
(12)
|
Initial
investment was made during 2010.
|
(13)
|
The
aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes of investments in
non-controlled affiliated companies is $51,546,166. The gross
unrealized appreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is
$10,165,855. The gross unrealized depreciation based on the tax
cost for these securities is
$16,152,376.
|
(14)
|
On
February 28, 2008, Lifco, Inc., merged with CFX Battery,
Inc. The surviving entity was CFX Battery, Inc. On
February 24, 2010, CFX Battery, Inc., changed its name to Contour Energy
Systems, Inc.
|
(15)
|
With
our investment in a convertible bridge note issued by Ensemble Discovery,
we received a warrant to purchase a number of shares of the class of stock
sold in the next financing of Ensemble Discovery equal to $149,539.57
divided by the price per share of the class of stock sold in the next
financing of Ensemble Discovery. The ability to exercise this
warrant is, therefore, contingent on Ensemble Discovery completing
successfully a subsequent round of financing. This warrant
shall expire and no longer be exercisable on September 10,
2015. The cost basis of this warrant is
$89.86.
|
(16)
|
The
aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes of investments in
controlled affiliated companies is $11,032,574. The gross
unrealized appreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is
$0. The gross unrealized depreciation based on the tax cost for
these securities is $3,329,348.
|
(17)
|
On
February 23, 2010, the Company signed a contingent bridge note issued by
SiOnyx, Inc., for $339,760. These funds may be requested by the
board of directors of SiOnyx on or before June 30, 2010. The
funds were called by SiOnyx on April 22, 2010. We received a
warrant to purchase a number of shares of the class of stock sold in the
next financing of SiOnyx equal to $169,880 divided by the price per share
of the class of stock sold in the next financing. The ability
to exercise this warrant and its expiration are, therefore, contingent on
SiOnyx completing successfully a subsequent round of
financing.
|
(18)
|
The
aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes of our U.S. government
securities is $53,163,696. The gross unrealized appreciation on the tax
cost for these securities is $0. The gross unrealized
depreciation on the tax cost of these securities is
$3,266.
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of this consolidated
schedule.
17
HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP,
INC.
CONSOLIDATED
SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS AS OF DECEMBER 31,
2009
|
Method
of
|
Shares/
|
||||||||
Valuation
(1)
|
Principal
|
Value
|
|||||||
Investments
in Unaffiliated Companies (2)(3)(4) – 16.3% of
|
|||||||||
net
assets at value
|
|||||||||
Private
Placement Portfolio (Illiquid) – 16.1% of net assets
|
|||||||||
at
value
|
|||||||||
BioVex
Group, Inc. (5)(6)(7)(8) -- Developing novel biologics
|
|||||||||
for
treatment of cancer and infectious disease
|
|||||||||
Series
E Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
2,799,552 | $ | 1,042,862 | |||||
Series
G Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
3,738,004 | 627,985 | ||||||
Warrants
at $0.21 expiring 11/5/16
|
( I
)
|
285,427 | 20,836 | ||||||
1,691,683 | |||||||||
Cobalt
Technologies, Inc. (5)(6)(7)(9) -- Developing processes
for
|
|||||||||
making
biobutanol through biomass fermentation
|
|||||||||
Series
C Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
352,112 | 375,000 | ||||||
D-Wave
Systems, Inc. (5)(6)(7)(10) -- Developing high-
|
|||||||||
performance
quantum computing systems
|
|||||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,144,869 | 907,612 | ||||||
Series
C Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
450,450 | 357,101 | ||||||
Series
D Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,533,395 | 1,215,622 | ||||||
2,480,335 | |||||||||
Molecular
Imprints, Inc. (5)(6) -- Manufacturing nanoimprint
|
|||||||||
lithography
capital equipment
|
|||||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,333,333 | 2,999,999 | ||||||
Series
C Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,250,000 | 2,812,500 | ||||||
Warrants
at $2.00 expiring 12/31/11
|
( I
)
|
125,000 | 163,625 | ||||||
5,976,124 | |||||||||
Nanosys,
Inc. (5)(6) -- Developing zero and one-dimensional
|
|||||||||
inorganic
nanometer-scale materials and devices
|
|||||||||
Series
C Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
803,428 | 1,185,056 | ||||||
Series
D Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,016,950 | 1,500,001 | ||||||
2,685,057 |
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
|
18
HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP,
INC.
CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF
INVESTMENTS AS OF DECEMBER 31,
2009
|
Method
of
|
Shares/
|
||||||||
Valuation
(1)
|
Principal
|
Value
|
|||||||
Investments
in Unaffiliated Companies (2)(3)(4) – 16.3% of
|
|||||||||
net
assets at value (Cont.)
|
|||||||||
Private
Placement Portfolio (Illiquid) – 16.1% of net assets
|
|||||||||
at
value (Cont.)
|
|||||||||
Nantero,
Inc. (5)(6)(7) -- Developing a high-density, nonvolatile,
|
|||||||||
random
access memory chip, enabled by carbon nanotubes
|
|||||||||
Series
A Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
345,070 | $ | 1,046,908 | |||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
207,051 | 628,172 | ||||||
Series
C Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
188,315 | 571,329 | ||||||
2,246,409 | |||||||||
NeoPhotonics
Corporation (5)(6)(11) -- Developing and manufacturing
|
|||||||||
optical
devices and components
|
|||||||||
Common
Stock
|
(M)
|
1,100,013 | 739,209 | ||||||
Series
1 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,831,256 | 1,230,604 | ||||||
Series
2 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
741,898 | 498,555 | ||||||
Series
3 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
2,750,000 | 1,848,000 | ||||||
Series
X Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
8,923 | 1,427,680 | ||||||
Warrants
at $0.15 expiring 01/26/10
|
( I
)
|
16,364 | 11,291 | ||||||
Warrants
at $0.15 expiring 12/05/10
|
( I
)
|
14,063 | 9,703 | ||||||
5,765,042 | |||||||||
Polatis,
Inc. (5)(6)(7) -- Developing MEMS-based optical
|
|||||||||
networking
components
|
|||||||||
Series
A-1 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
16,775 | 0 | ||||||
Series
A-2 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
71,611 | 0 | ||||||
Series
A-4 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
4,774 | 0 | ||||||
Series
A-5 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
16,438 | 0 | ||||||
0 | |||||||||
PolyRemedy,
Inc. (5)(6)(7) -- Developing a robotic
|
|||||||||
manufacturing
platform for wound treatment patches
|
|||||||||
Series
B-1 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
287,647 | 46,933 | ||||||
Series
B-2 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
676,147 | 60,853 | ||||||
107,786 |
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
|
19
HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP,
INC.
CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF
INVESTMENTS AS OF DECEMBER 31,
2009
|
Method
of
|
Shares/
|
||||||||
Valuation
(1)
|
Principal
|
Value
|
|||||||
Investments
in Unaffiliated Companies (2)(3)(4) – 16.3% of
|
|||||||||
net
assets at value (Cont.)
|
|||||||||
Private
Placement Portfolio (Illiquid) – 16.1% of net assets
|
|||||||||
at
value (Cont.)
|
|||||||||
Siluria
Technologies, Inc. (5)(6)(7) -- Developing next-generation
|
|||||||||
nanomaterials
|
|||||||||
Series
S-2 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
612,061 | $ | 204,000 | |||||
TetraVitae
Bioscience, Inc. (5)(6)(7)(12) -- Developing methods
|
|||||||||
of
producing alternative chemicals and fuels through biomass
|
|||||||||
fermentation
|
|||||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
118,804 | 125,000 | ||||||
Total
Unaffiliated Private Placement Portfolio (cost:
$26,977,200)
|
$ | 21,656,436 | |||||||
Publicly
Traded Portfolio (Liquid) – 0.2% of net assets
|
|||||||||
at
value
|
|||||||||
Orthovita,
Inc. (6)(13) -- Developing materials and devices
|
|||||||||
for
orthopedic medical implant applications
|
|||||||||
Common
Stock
|
(M)
|
64,500 | 226,395 | ||||||
Total
Unaffiliated Publicly Traded Portfolio (cost: $298,827)
|
$ | 226,395 | |||||||
Total
Investments in Unaffiliated Companies (cost: $27,276,027)
|
$ | 21,882,831 |
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
|
20
HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP,
INC.
CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF
INVESTMENTS AS OF DECEMBER 31,
2009
|
Method
of
|
Shares/
|
||||||||
Valuation (1)
|
Principal
|
Value
|
|||||||
Investments
in Non-Controlled Affiliated Companies (2)(14) –
|
|||||||||
37.5%
of net assets at value
|
|||||||||
Private Placement
Portfolio (Illiquid) – 37.5% of net
assets
|
|||||||||
at
value
|
|||||||||
Adesto
Technologies Corporation (5)(6)(7) -- Developing
low-power,
|
|||||||||
high-performance
memory devices
|
|||||||||
Series
A Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
6,547,619 | $ | 2,420,000 | |||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
5,952,381 | 2,200,000 | ||||||
4,620,000 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
Bridgelux,
Inc. (5)(6) -- Manufacturing high-power light
|
|||||||||
emitting
diodes (LEDs) and arrays
|
|||||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,861,504 | 1,804,914 | ||||||
Series
C Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
2,130,699 | 2,065,926 | ||||||
Series
D Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
833,333 | 807,999 | ||||||
Warrants
at $0.7136 expiring 12/31/14
|
( I
)
|
163,900 | 98,995 | ||||||
Warrants
at $1.50 expiring 8/26/14
|
( I
)
|
124,999 | 55,375 | ||||||
4,833,209 | |||||||||
Cambrios
Technologies Corporation (5)(6)(7) -- Developing
|
|||||||||
nanowire-enabled
electronic materials for the display industry
|
|||||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,294,025 | 647,013 | ||||||
Series
C Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,300,000 | 650,000 | ||||||
Series
D Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
515,756 | 257,878 | ||||||
1,554,891 | |||||||||
CFX
Battery, Inc. (5)(6)(7)(15) -- Developing batteries
using
|
|||||||||
nanostructured
materials
|
|||||||||
Series
A Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
2,565,798 | 2,822,378 | ||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
812,500 | 1,300,000 | ||||||
4,122,378 | |||||||||
Crystal
IS, Inc. (5)(6) -- Developing single-crystal
|
|||||||||
aluminum
nitride substrates for light-emitting diodes
|
|||||||||
Common
Stock
|
(M)
|
2,585,657 | 0 | ||||||
Warrants
at $0.78 expiring 05/05/13
|
( I
)
|
15,231 | 0 | ||||||
Warrants
at $0.78 expiring 05/12/13
|
( I
)
|
2,350 | 0 | ||||||
Warrants
at $0.78 expiring 08/08/13
|
( I
)
|
4,396 | 0 | ||||||
0 |
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
21
HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP,
INC.
CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF
INVESTMENTS AS OF DECEMBER 31,
2009
|
Method
of
|
Shares/
|
||||||||
Valuation (1)
|
Principal
|
Value
|
|||||||
Investments
in Non-Controlled Affiliated Companies (2)(14) –
|
|||||||||
37.5%
of net assets at value (Cont.)
|
|||||||||
Private Placement
Portfolio (Illiquid) – 37.5% of net
assets
|
|||||||||
at
value (Cont.)
|
|||||||||
Ensemble
Discovery Corporation (5)(6)(16) -- Developing
DNA-
|
|||||||||
Programmed
ChemistryTM for the discovery of new classes
of
|
|||||||||
therapeutics
and bioassays
|
|||||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,449,275 | $ | 1,500,000 | |||||
Unsecured
Convertible Bridge Note (including interest)
|
(M)
|
$ | 299,169 | 325,506 | |||||
1,825,506 | |||||||||
Enumeral
Technologies, Inc. (5)(6)(7)(13) -- Developing high-value
|
|||||||||
opportunities
in immunology including therapeutic discovery,
|
|||||||||
immune
profiling and personalized medicine
|
|||||||||
Unsecured
Convertible Bridge Note (including interest)
|
(M)
|
$ | 250,000 | 250,438 | |||||
Innovalight,
Inc. (5)(6)(7) -- Developing solar power
|
|||||||||
products
enabled by silicon-based nanomaterials
|
|||||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
16,666,666 | 2,969,667 | ||||||
Series
C Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
5,810,577 | 1,276,457 | ||||||
Series
D Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
4,046,974 | 721,090 | ||||||
4,967,214 | |||||||||
Kovio,
Inc. (5)(6) -- Developing semiconductor products
|
|||||||||
using
printed electronics and thin-film technologies
|
|||||||||
Series
C Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
2,500,000 | 609,943 | ||||||
Series
D Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
800,000 | 195,182 | ||||||
Series
E Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,200,000 | 1,500,000 | ||||||
Warrants
at $1.25 expiring 12/31/12
|
( I
)
|
355,880 | 291,466 | ||||||
2,596,591 | |||||||||
Mersana
Therapeutics, Inc. (5)(6)(7) -- Developing treatments for
|
|||||||||
cancer
based on novel drug delivery polymers
|
|||||||||
Series
A Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
68,451 | 68,451 | ||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
866,500 | 866,500 | ||||||
Unsecured
Convertible Bridge Note (including interest)
|
(M)
|
$ | 650,000 | 708,165 | |||||
Warrants
at $2.00 expiring 10/21/10
|
( I
)
|
91,625 | 16,218 | ||||||
1,659,334 |
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
22
HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP,
INC.
CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF
INVESTMENTS AS OF DECEMBER 31,
2009
|
Method
of
|
Shares/
|
||||||||
Valuation
(1)
|
Principal
|
Value
|
|||||||
Investments
in Non-Controlled Affiliated Companies (2)(14) –
|
|||||||||
37.5%
of net assets at value (Cont.)
|
|||||||||
Private Placement
Portfolio (Illiquid) – 37.5% of net
assets
|
|||||||||
at
value (Cont.)
|
|||||||||
Metabolon,
Inc. (5)(6) -- Developing service and diagnostic products
|
|||||||||
through
the use of a metabolomics, or biochemical, profiling
platform
|
|||||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
371,739 | $ | 1,034,061 | |||||
Series
B-1 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
148,696 | 413,625 | ||||||
Series
C Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | ||||||
Warrants
at $1.15 expiring 3/25/15
|
( I
)
|
74,348 | 112,092 | ||||||
2,559,778 | |||||||||
NanoGram
Corporation (5)(6) -- Developing solar power products
|
|||||||||
enabled
by silicon-based nanomaterials
|
|||||||||
Series
I Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
63,210 | 0 | ||||||
Series
II Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,250,904 | 0 | ||||||
Series
III Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,242,144 | 0 | ||||||
Series
IV Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
432,179 | 0 | ||||||
0 | |||||||||
Nextreme
Thermal Solutions, Inc. (5)(6) -- Developing thin-film
|
|||||||||
thermoelectric
devices for cooling and energy conversion
|
|||||||||
Series
A Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
17,500 | 1,750,000 | ||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
4,870,244 | 2,655,257 | ||||||
4,405,257 | |||||||||
Questech
Corporation (5)(6) -- Manufacturing and marketing
|
|||||||||
proprietary
metal and stone decorative tiles
|
|||||||||
Common
Stock
|
(M)
|
655,454 | 425,390 | ||||||
Solazyme,
Inc. (5)(6)(7) -- Developing algal biodiesel, industrial
|
|||||||||
chemicals
and special ingredients based on synthetic biology
|
|||||||||
Series
A Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
988,204 | 4,978,157 | ||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
495,246 | 2,494,841 | ||||||
Series
C Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
651,309 | 3,281,021 | ||||||
10,754,019 |
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
|
23
HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP,
INC.
CONSOLIDATED
SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS AS OF DECEMBER 31,
2009
|
Method
of
|
Shares/
|
||||||||
Valuation
(1)
|
Principal
|
Value
|
|||||||
Investments
in Non-Controlled Affiliated Companies (2)(14) –
|
|||||||||
37.5%
of net assets at value (Cont.)
|
|||||||||
Private Placement
Portfolio (Illiquid) – 37.5% of net
assets
|
|||||||||
at
value (Cont.)
|
|||||||||
Xradia,
Inc. (5)(6) -- Designing, manufacturing and selling
ultra-high
|
|||||||||
resolution
3D x-ray microscopes and fluorescence imaging systems
|
|||||||||
Series
D Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
3,121,099 | $ | 5,723,215 | |||||
Total
Non-Controlled Private Placement Portfolio (cost:
$54,864,948)
|
$ | 50,297,220 | |||||||
Total
Investments in Non-Controlled Affiliated Companies (cost:
$54,864,948)
|
$ | 50,297,220 |
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
|
24
HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP,
INC.
CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF
INVESTMENTS AS OF DECEMBER 31,
2009
|
Method
of
|
Shares/
|
||||||||
Valuation (1)
|
Principal
|
Value
|
|||||||
Investments
in Controlled Affiliated Companies (2)(17) –
|
|||||||||
4.40%
of net assets at value
|
|||||||||
Private Placement
Portfolio (Illiquid) – 4.40%
of
|
|||||||||
net
assets at value
|
|||||||||
Ancora
Pharmaceuticals Inc. (5)(6)(7) -- Developing synthetic
|
|||||||||
carbohydrates for pharmaceutical
applications
|
|||||||||
Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
1,663,808 | $ | 17,374 | |||||
Series
C Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
2,066,051 | 1,239,632 | ||||||
1,257,006 | |||||||||
Laser
Light Engines, Inc. (5)(6)(7) -- Manufacturing solid-state
light
|
|||||||||
sources
for digital cinema and large-venue projection displays
|
|||||||||
Series
A Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
7,499,062 | 1,000,000 | ||||||
Secured
Convertible Bridge Note (including interest)
|
(M)
|
$ | 1,390,000 | 1,434,116 | |||||
2,434,116 | |||||||||
SiOnyx,
Inc. (5)(6)(7) -- Developing silicon-based optoelectronic
|
|||||||||
products
enabled by its proprietary "Black Silicon"
|
|||||||||
Series
A Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
233,499 | 67,843 | ||||||
Series
A-1 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
2,966,667 | 861,965 | ||||||
Series
A-2 Convertible Preferred Stock
|
(M)
|
4,207,537 | 1,222,500 | ||||||
2,152,308 | |||||||||
Total
Controlled Private Placement Portfolio (cost: $10,248,932)
|
$ | 5,843,430 | |||||||
Total
Investments in Controlled Affiliated Companies (cost:
$10,248,932)
|
$ | 5,843,430 | |||||||
Total
Private Placement and Publicly Traded Portfolio (cost:
$92,389,907)
|
$ | 78,023,481 |
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
|
25
HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP,
INC.
CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF
INVESTMENTS AS OF DECEMBER 31,
2009
|
Method
of
|
Shares/
|
||||||||
Valuation (1)
|
Principal
|
Value
|
|||||||
U.S.
Government Securities (18) – 41.7% of net assets at value
|
|||||||||
U.S.
Treasury Bill -- due date
04/22/10
|
(M)
|
$ | 10,000,000 | $ | 9,997,600 | ||||
U.S.
Treasury Bill -- due date
06/17/10
|
(M)
|
42,175,000 | 42,139,151 | ||||||
U.S.
Treasury Notes -- due date 02/28/10, coupon
2.000%
|
(M)
|
3,800,000 | 3,810,830 | ||||||
Total
Investments in U.S. Government Securities (cost:
$55,960,024)
|
$ | 55,947,581 | |||||||
Total
Investments (cost: $148,349,931)
|
$ | 133,971,062 |
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
|
26
HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP,
INC.
CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF
INVESTMENTS AS OF DECEMBER 31,
2009
|
Notes to
Consolidated Schedule of Investments
(1)
|
See
Footnote to Consolidated Schedule of Investments on page 29 for a
description of the Valuation
Procedures.
|
(2)
|
Investments
in unaffiliated companies consist of investments in which we own less than
five percent of the voting shares of the portfolio company or less than
five percent of the common shares of the publicly traded
company. Investments in non-controlled affiliated companies
consist of investments in which we own five percent or more, but less than
25 percent, of the voting shares of the portfolio company, or where we
hold one or more seats on the portfolio company’s Board of Directors but
do not control the company. Investments in controlled
affiliated companies consist of investments in which we own 25 percent or
more of the voting shares of the portfolio company or otherwise control
the company.
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(3)
|
The
aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes of investments in
unaffiliated private companies is $26,977,200. The gross
unrealized appreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is
$2,338,205. The gross unrealized depreciation based on the tax cost for
these securities is $7,658,969.
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(4)
|
The
aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes of investments in
unaffiliated publicly traded companies is $298,827. The gross
unrealized appreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is
$0. The gross unrealized depreciation based on the tax cost for
these securities is $72,432.
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(5)
|
Legal
restrictions on sale of investment.
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(6)
|
Represents
a non-income producing security. Equity investments that have
not paid dividends within the last 12 months are considered to be
non-income producing.
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(7)
|
These
investments are development-stage companies. A
development-stage company is defined as a company that is devoting
substantially all of its efforts to establishing a new business, and
either it has not yet commenced its planned principal operations, or it
has commenced such operations but has not realized significant revenue
from them.
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(8)
|
With
our purchase of Series E Convertible Preferred Stock of BioVex, we
received a warrant to purchase a number of shares of common stock of
BioVex as determined by dividing 624,999.99 by the price per share at
which the common stock is offered and sold to the public in connection
with the IPO. The ability to exercise this warrant is therefore
contingent on BioVex completing successfully an IPO before the expiration
date of the warrant on September 27, 2012. The exercise price
of this warrant shall be 110 percent of the IPO
price.
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(9)
|
Cobalt
Technologies, Inc., does business as Cobalt
Biofuels.
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The
accompanying notes are an integral part of this consolidated
schedule.
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HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP,
INC.
CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF
INVESTMENTS AS OF DECEMBER 31,
2009
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(10)
|
D-Wave
Systems, Inc., is located and is doing business primarily in
Canada. We invested in D-Wave Systems, Inc., through
D-Wave USA, a Delaware company. Our investment is denominated
in Canadian dollars and is subject to foreign currency
translation. See "Note 3. Summary of Significant Accounting
Policies."
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(11)
|
We
exercised NeoPhotonics Corporation warrants in January and February
2010.
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(12)
|
With
our purchase of the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock of TetraVitae
Bioscience, Inc., we received the right to purchase, at a price of
$2.63038528 per share, a number of shares in the Series C financing equal
to the number of shares of Series B Preferred Stock purchased. The
ability to exercise this right is contingent on TetraVitae Bioscience
completing successfully a subsequent round of
financing.
|
(13)
|
Initial
investment was made during 2009.
|
(14)
|
The
aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes of investments in
non-controlled affiliated companies is $54,864,948. The gross
unrealized appreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is
$10,648,525. The gross unrealized depreciation based on the tax
cost for these securities is
$15,216,253.
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(15)
|
On
February 28, 2008, Lifco, Inc., merged with CFX Battery,
Inc. The surviving entity is CFX Battery,
Inc.
|
(16)
|
With
our investment in a convertible bridge note issued by Ensemble Discovery,
we received a warrant to purchase a number of shares of the class of stock
sold in the next financing of Ensemble Discovery equal to $149,539.57
divided by the price per share of the class of stock sold in the next
financing of Ensemble Discovery. The ability to exercise this
warrant is, therefore, contingent on Ensemble Discovery completing
successfully a subsequent round of financing. This warrant
shall expire and no longer be exercisable on September 10,
2015. The cost basis of this warrant is
$89.86.
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(17)
|
The
aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes of investments in
controlled affiliated companies is $10,248,932. The gross
unrealized appreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is
$0. The gross unrealized depreciation based on the tax cost for
these securities is $4,405,502.
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(18)
|
The
aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes of our U.S. government
securities is $55,960,024. The gross unrealized appreciation on the tax
cost for these securities is $0. The gross unrealized depreciation on the
tax cost of these securities is
$12,443.
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The
accompanying notes are an integral part of this consolidated
schedule.
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HARRIS
& HARRIS GROUP, INC.
FOOTNOTE
TO CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF
INVESTMENTS
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VALUATION
PROCEDURES
I.
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Determination
of Net Asset Value
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The 1940 Act requires periodic
valuation of each investment in the portfolio of the Company to determine its
net asset value. Under the 1940 Act, unrestricted securities with readily
available market quotations are to be valued at the current market value; all
other assets must be valued at "fair value" as determined in good faith by or
under the direction of the Board of Directors.
The Board of Directors is responsible
for (1) determining overall valuation guidelines and (2) ensuring that the
investments of the Company are valued within the prescribed
guidelines.
The Valuation Committee, comprised of
all of the independent Board members, is responsible for determining the
valuation of the Company’s assets within the guidelines established by the Board
of Directors. The Valuation Committee receives information and
recommendations from management.
The values assigned to these
investments are based on available information and do not necessarily represent
amounts that might ultimately be realized when that investment is sold, as such
amounts depend on future circumstances and cannot reasonably be determined until
the individual investments are actually liquidated or become readily
marketable.
II.
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Approaches
to Determining Fair Value
|
Accounting principles generally
accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP") define fair value as the price
that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an
orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date (exit
price). In effect, GAAP applies fair value terminology to all
valuations whereas the 1940 Act applies market value terminology to readily
marketable assets and fair value terminology to other assets.
The main
approaches to measuring fair value utilized are the market approach and the
income approach.
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·
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Market
Approach: The market approach uses prices and other relevant
information generated by market transactions involving identical or
comparable assets or liabilities. For example, the market approach often
uses market multiples derived from a set of comparables. Multiples might
lie in ranges with a different multiple for each comparable. The selection
of where within the range each appropriate multiple falls requires
judgment considering factors specific to the measurement (qualitative and
quantitative).
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·
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Income
Approach: The income approach uses valuation techniques to convert
future amounts (for example, cash flows or earnings) to a single present
value amount (discounted). The measurement is based on the value indicated
by current market expectations about those future amounts. Those valuation
techniques include present value techniques; option-pricing models, such
as the Black-Scholes-Merton formula (a closed-form model) and a binomial
model (a lattice model), which incorporate present value techniques; and
the multi-period excess earnings method, which is used to measure the fair
value of certain assets.
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GAAP
classifies the inputs used to measure fair value by these approaches into the
following hierarchy:
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·
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Level 1:
Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or
liabilities.
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·
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Level 2: Quoted
prices in active markets for similar assets or liabilities, or quoted
prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are
not active, or inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the
asset or liability.
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·
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Level 3:
Unobservable inputs for the asset or
liability.
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Financial assets and liabilities are
classified in their entirety based on the lowest level of input that is
significant to the fair value measurement and are not necessarily an indication
of risks associated with the investment.
III.
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Investment
Categories
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The Company’s investments can be
classified into five broad categories for valuation purposes:
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·
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Equity-related
securities;
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·
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Long-term
fixed-income securities;
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·
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Short-term
fixed-income securities;
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·
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Investments
in intellectual property, patents, research and development in technology
or product development;
and
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·
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All
other securities.
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The Company applies the methods for
determining fair value discussed above to the valuation of investments in each
of these five broad categories as follows:
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A.
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EQUITY-RELATED
SECURITIES
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Equity-related
securities, including warrants, are fair valued using the market or income
approaches. The following factors may be considered when the market
approach is used to fair value these types of securities:
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§
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Readily
available public market quotations;
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§
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The
cost of the Company’s investment;
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§
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Transactions
in a company's securities or unconditional firm offers by responsible
parties as a factor in determining
valuation;
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§
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The
financial condition and operating results of the
company;
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§
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The
company's progress towards
milestones.
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§
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The
long-term potential of the business and technology of the
company;
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§
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The
values of similar securities issued by companies in similar
businesses;
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§
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Multiples
to revenue, net income or EBITDA that similar securities issued by
companies in similar businesses
receive;
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§
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The
proportion of the company's securities we own and the nature of any rights
to require the company to register restricted securities under applicable
securities laws; and
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§
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The
rights and preferences of the class of securities we own as compared to
other classes of securities the portfolio company has
issued.
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When the income approach is used to
value warrants, the Company uses the Black-Scholes-Merton formula.
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B.
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LONG-TERM
FIXED-INCOME SECURITIES
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1.
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Readily
Marketable: Long-term fixed-income securities for which
market quotations are readily available are valued using the most recent
bid quotations when available
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2.
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Not
Readily Marketable: Long-term fixed-income securities
for which market quotations are not readily available are fair valued
using the market approach. The factors that may be considered
when valuing these types of securities by the market approach
include:
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·
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Credit
quality;
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·
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Interest
rate analysis;
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·
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Quotations
from broker-dealers;
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·
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Prices
from independent pricing services that the Board believes are reasonably
reliable; and
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·
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Reasonable
price discovery procedures and data from other
sources.
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C.
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SHORT-TERM
FIXED-INCOME SECURITIES
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Short-term fixed-income securities
are valued using the market approach in the same manner as long-term
fixed-income securities until the remaining maturity is 60 days or less, after
which time such securities may be valued at amortized cost if there is no
concern over payment at maturity.
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D.
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INVESTMENTS
IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, PATENTS, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN TECHNOLOGY
OR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
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Such investments are fair valued using
the market approach. The Company may consider factors specific to these types of
investments when using the market approach including:
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·
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The
cost of the Company’s investment;
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·
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Investments
in the same or substantially similar intellectual property or patents or
research and development in technology or product development or offers by
responsible third parties;
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·
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The
results of research and
development;
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·
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Product
development and milestone progress;
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·
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Commercial
prospects;
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·
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Term
of patent;
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·
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Projected
markets; and
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·
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Other
subjective factors.
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E.
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ALL
OTHER SECURITIES
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All other
securities are reported at fair value as determined in good faith by the
Valuation Committee using the approaches for determining valuation as described
above.
For all other securities, the reported
values shall reflect the Valuation Committee's judgment of fair values as of the
valuation date using the outlined basic approaches of valuation discussed in
Section III. They do not necessarily represent an amount of money
that would be realized if we had to sell such assets in an immediate
liquidation. Thus, valuations as of any particular date are not
necessarily indicative of amounts that we may ultimately realize as a result of
future sales or other dispositions of investments we hold.
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NOTES
TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Unaudited)
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NOTE 1. THE
COMPANY
Harris & Harris Group, Inc. (the
"Company," "us," "our" and "we"), is a venture capital company operating as a
business development company ("BDC") under the Investment Company of 1940 (the
"1940 Act") that specializes in making investments in companies commercializing
and integrating products enabled by nanotechnology and
microsystems. We operate as an internally managed company whereby our
officers and employees, under the general supervision of our Board of Directors,
conduct our operations.
Harris & Harris Enterprises,
Inc.SM, is a
100 percent wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. Harris &
Harris Enterprises, Inc., is a partner in Harris Partners I, L.P. SM, and
is taxed under Subchapter C of the Code (a "C Corporation"). Harris
Partners I, L.P, is a limited partnership and, from time to time, may be used to
hold certain interests in portfolio companies. The partners of Harris
Partners I, L.P., are Harris & Harris Enterprises, Inc., (sole general
partner) and Harris & Harris Group, Inc. (sole limited
partner). Harris & Harris Enterprises, Inc., pays taxes on any
non-passive investment income generated by Harris Partners I,
L.P. For the period ended March 31, 2010, there was no non-passive
investment income generated by Harris Partners I, L.P. The Company
consolidates the results of its subsidiaries for financial reporting
purposes.
NOTE 2. INTERIM
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Our interim financial statements have
been prepared in accordance with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of
Regulation S-X and in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted
in the United States of America ("GAAP") applicable to interim financial
information. Accordingly, they do not include all information and
disclosures necessary for a presentation of our financial position, results of
operations and cash flows in conformity with GAAP. In the opinion of
management, these financial statements reflect all adjustments, consisting of
valuation adjustments and normal recurring accruals, necessary for a fair
presentation of our financial position, results of operations and cash flows for
such periods. The results of operations for any interim period are not
necessarily indicative of the results for the full year. These
financial statements should be read in conjunction with the financial statements
and notes thereto contained in our Annual Report
on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009.
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NOTE 3. SUMMARY
OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
The following is a summary of
significant accounting policies followed in the preparation of the consolidated
financial statements:
Principles of
Consolidation. The consolidated financial statements have been
prepared in accordance with GAAP and include the accounts of the Company and its
wholly owned subsidiary. All significant inter-company accounts and
transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. Certain prior
period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current period
presentation.
Use of
Estimates. The preparation of the consolidated financial
statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and
assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and
contingent assets and liabilities and the reported amounts of revenues and
expenses. Actual results could differ from these estimates, and the
differences could be material. The most significant estimates relate
to the fair valuations of our investments.
Cash and Cash
Equivalents. Cash and cash equivalents includes demand
deposits. Cash and cash equivalents are carried at cost which
approximates value.
Portfolio Investment
Valuations. Investments are stated at "value" as defined in
the 1940 Act and in the applicable regulations of the SEC and in accordance with
GAAP. Value, as defined in Section 2(a)(41) of the 1940 Act, is (i)
the market price for those securities for which a market quotation is readily
available and (ii) the fair value as determined in good faith by, or under the
direction of, the Board of Directors for all other assets. (See
"Valuation Procedures" in the "Footnote to Consolidated Schedule of
Investments.") At March 31, 2010, our financial statements include
private venture capital investments valued at $83,014,946. The fair values of
our private venture capital investments were determined in good faith by, or
under the direction, of the Board of Directors. Upon sale of
investments, the values that are ultimately realized may be different from what
is presently estimated. The difference could be
material.
Foreign Currency
Translation. The accounting records of the Company are
maintained in U.S. dollars. All assets and liabilities denominated in
foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars based on the rate of
exchange of such currencies against U.S. dollars on the date of
valuation. For the three months ended March 31, 2010, included in the
net decrease in unrealized depreciation on investments was an $84,739 gain
resulting from foreign currency translation.
Securities
Transactions. Securities transactions are accounted for on the
date the transaction for the purchase or sale of the securities is entered into
by the Company (i.e., trade date).
Interest Income
Recognition. Interest income, adjusted for amortization of
premium and accretion of discount, is recorded on an accrual
basis. When securities are determined to be non-income producing, the
Company ceases accruing interest and writes off any previously accrued
interest. During the three months ended March 31, 2010, the Company
earned $8,242 in interest on U.S. government securities and interest-bearing
accounts. During the three months ended March 31, 2010, the Company
recorded, net of write-offs, $64,831 of bridge note interest.
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Realized Gain or Loss and
Unrealized Appreciation or Depreciation of Portfolio Investments.
Realized gain or loss is recognized when an investment is disposed of and
is computed as the difference between the Company's cost basis in the investment
at the disposition date and the net proceeds received from such
disposition. Realized gains and losses on investment transactions are
determined by specific identification. Unrealized appreciation or
depreciation is computed as the difference between the fair value of the
investment and the cost basis of such investment.
Stock-Based
Compensation. The Company has a stock-based employee
compensation plan. The Company accounts for the Harris & Harris
Group, Inc. 2006 Equity Incentive Plan (the "Stock Plan") by determining the
fair value of all share-based payments to employees, including the fair value of
grants of employee stock options, and records these amounts as an expense in the
Consolidated Statements of Operations over the vesting period with a
corresponding increase to our additional paid-in capital. At March
31, 2010, and December 31, 2009, the increase to our operating expenses was
offset by the increase to our additional paid-in capital, resulting in no net
impact to our net asset value. Additionally, the Company does not
record the tax benefits associated with the expensing of stock options, because
the Company currently intends to qualify as a RIC under Subchapter M of the
Code. The amount of non-cash, stock-based compensation expense
recognized in the Consolidated Statements of Operations is based on the fair
value of the awards the Company expects to vest, recognized over the vesting
period on a straight-line basis for each award, and adjusted for actual options
vested and pre-vesting forfeitures. The forfeiture rate is estimated
at the time of grant and revised, if necessary, in subsequent periods if the
actual forfeiture rate differs from the estimated rate and is accounted for in
the current period and prospectively. See "Note
6. Stock-Based Compensation" for further discussion.
Income
Taxes. As we intend to qualify as a RIC under Subchapter M of
the Internal Revenue Code, the Company does not provide for income
taxes. The Company
recognizes interest and penalties in income tax expense.
We pay federal, state and local income
taxes on behalf of our wholly owned subsidiary, Harris & Harris Enterprises,
Inc., which is a C corporation. See "Note 7. Income
Taxes."
Restricted
Funds. At March 31, 2010, and December 31, 2009, we held
$2,000 in restricted funds as a security deposit for a sublessor.
Property and
Equipment. Property and equipment are included in "Other
Assets" and are carried at $394,668 and $69,528 at March 31, 2010, and December
31, 2009, respectively, representing cost, less accumulated
depreciation. Depreciation is provided using the straight-line method
over the estimated useful lives of the premises and equipment. We
estimate the useful lives to be five to ten years for furniture and fixtures,
three years for computer equipment, and ten years for leasehold
improvements.
Rent
expense. Our lease at 1450 Broadway, New York, New York,
commenced on January 21, 2010, with these offices replacing our corporate
headquarters previously located at 111 West 57th Street
in New York City. The lease expires on December 31,
2019. The base rent is $36 per square foot with a 2.5 percent
increase per year over the 10 years of the lease, subject to a full abatement of
rent for four months and a rent credit for six months throughout the lease
term. Certain leasehold improvements were also paid for on our behalf
by the landlord. We apply these rent abatements, credits and
escalations on a straight-line basis in the determination of rent expense over
the lease term.
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Lease Termination
Costs. GAAP requires that we maintain a liability for costs
associated with vacating our offices at 111 West 57th Street,
New York, New York, prior to the termination of our lease in April
2010. During the three months ended March 31, 2010, we recognized a
loss of $68,038 related to the termination.
Post Retirement Plan
Liabilities. Unrecognized actuarial gains and losses are
recognized as net periodic benefit cost pursuant to the Company's historical
accounting policy for amortizing such amounts. Actuarial gains and
losses that arise that are not recognized as net periodic benefit cost in the
same periods will be recognized as a component of net assets.
Concentration of Credit
Risk. The Company places its cash and cash equivalents with
financial institutions and, at times, cash held in checking accounts may exceed
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insured limit.
Recent Accounting
Pronouncements. In January 2010, the FASB issued Accounting
Standards Update No. 2010-06, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures (Topic
820) - Improving Disclosures about Fair Value Measurements. This
guidance requires reporting entities to make new disclosures about recurring and
nonrecurring fair value measurements, including significant transfers into and
out of Level 1 and Level 2 fair value measurements and information on purchases,
sales, issuances and settlements, on a gross basis, in the reconciliation of
Level 3 fair value measurements. This guidance also requires
disclosure of fair value measurements by "class" instead of by "major category"
as well as any changes in valuation techniques used during the reporting
period. For disclosures of Level 1 and Level 2 activity, fair value
measurements by "class" and changes in valuation techniques, this guidance is
effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15,
2009, with disclosures for previous comparative periods prior to adoption not
required. The adoption of this portion of this guidance on January 1,
2010, did not have a material impact on the Company's consolidated financial
condition or results of operations. For the reconciliation of Level 3
fair value measurements, this guidance is effective for interim and annual
reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2010. The adoption of
this portion of this guidance is not expected to have a material impact on the
Company's consolidated financial condition or results of
operations.
NOTE 4. BUSINESS
RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES
We have invested a substantial portion
of our assets in privately held companies, the securities of which are
inherently illiquid. We also seek to invest in small publicly traded
companies that we believe have exceptional growth potential. Although
these companies are publicly traded, their stock may not trade at high volumes
and prices can be volatile, which may restrict our ability to sell our
positions. These privately held and publicly traded businesses tend
to lack management depth, to have limited or no history of operations and to not
have attained profitability. Because of the speculative nature of our
investments and the lack of a public market for privately held investments,
there is greater risk of loss than is the case with traditional investment
securities.
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Because there is typically no public
market for our interests in the small privately held companies in which we
invest, the valuation of the equity and bridge note interests in that portion of
our portfolio is determined in good faith by our Valuation Committee, comprised
of all of the independent members of our Board of Directors, in accordance with
our Valuation Procedures and is subject to significant estimates and
judgments. In the absence of a readily ascertainable market value,
the determined value of our portfolio of equity interests may differ
significantly from the values that would be placed on the portfolio if a ready
market for the equity interests existed. Any changes in valuation are
recorded in our Consolidated Statements of Operations as "Net decrease
(increase) in unrealized depreciation on investments." Changes in
valuation of any of our investments in privately held companies from one period
to another may be volatile.
NOTE
5. INVESTMENTS
At March
31, 2010, our financial assets were categorized as follows in the fair value
hierarchy:
Fair Value Measurement at Reporting Date
Using:
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Description
|
March 31,
2010
|
Quoted Prices in
Active
Markets for
Identical
Assets (Level
1)
|
Significant
Other
Observable
Inputs
(Level 2)
|
Significant
Unobservable
Inputs
(Level 3)
|
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U.S.
Government Securities
|
$ | 53,160,430 | $ | 53,160,430 | $ | 0 | $ | 0 | ||||||||
Private
Portfolio Companies:
|
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Preferred
Stock
|
$ | 77,237,407 | $ | 0 | $ | 0 | $ | 77,237,407 | ||||||||
Bridge
Notes
|
$ | 3,703,674 | $ | 0 | $ | 0 | $ | 3,703,674 | ||||||||
Common
Stock
|
$ | 1,463,561 | $ | 0 | $ | 0 | $ | 1,463,561 | ||||||||
Warrants
|
$ | 610,304 | $ | 0 | $ | 0 | $ | 610,304 | ||||||||
Publicly
Traded
Portfolio
Companies:
|
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Common
Stock
|
$ | 552,454 | $ | 552,454 | $ | 0 | $ | 0 | ||||||||
Total
|
$ | 136,727,830 | $ | 53,712,884 | $ | 0 | $ | 83,014,946 |
The
following chart shows the components of change in the financial assets
categorized as Level 3, for the three months ended March 31,
2010.
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Beginning
Balance
1/1/2010
|
Total
Realized
Gains
(Losses)
Included
in
Changes
in
Net
Assets
|
Total
Unrealized
Gains
(Losses)
Included
in
Changes
in
Net
Assets
|
Investments
in
Private
Placements
and
Interest
on
Bridge
Notes
|
Disposals
|
Ending
Balance
3/31/2010
|
Amount
of Total
Gains
for the
Period
Included
in
Changes in
Net
Assets
Attributable
to
the
Change in
Unrealized
Gains
or Losses
Relating
to
Assets
Still Held
at
the Reporting
Date
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Preferred
Stock
|
$ | 73,134,661 | $ | 0 | $ | 3,642,718 | $ | 460,028 | $ | 0 | $ | 77,237,407 | $ | 3,642,718 | ||||||||||||||
Bridge
Notes
|
2,718,225 | 0 | 0 | 985,449 | 0 | 3,703,674 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Common
Stock
|
1,164,599 | 0 | 290,084 | 8,878 | 0 | 1,463,561 | 290,084 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Warrants
|
779,601 | 0 | (204,996 | ) | 35,699 | 0 | 610,304 | (204,996 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
Total
|
$ | 77,797,086 | $ | 0 | $ | 3,727,806 | $ | 1,490,054 | $ | 0 | $ | 83,014,946 | $ | 3,727,806 |
NOTE
6. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION
On March
18, 2010, the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors and the full
Board of Directors of the Company approved a grant of individual Non-Qualified
Stock Option ("NQSO") awards for certain officers and employees of the
Company. The terms and conditions of the stock options granted were
set forth in award agreements between the Company and each award recipient
entered into on that date. Options to purchase a total of 150,000
shares of stock were granted with vesting periods ranging from March 18, 2011,
to March 18, 2013, and with an exercise price of $4.75, which was the closing
price of our shares of common stock as quoted on the Nasdaq Global Market on
March 18, 2010. The awards may become fully vested and exercisable
prior to the date or dates in the vesting schedule if the Board of Directors
accepts an offer for the sale of substantially all of the Company's
assets. Upon exercise, the shares would be issued from our previously
authorized but unissued shares.
The fair
value of the options was determined on the date of grant using the
Black-Scholes-Merton model.
The
assumptions used in the calculation of fair value of the NQSOs granted on March
18, 2010, using the Black-Scholes-Merton model for the expected term was as
follows:
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Weighted
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Average
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Number
|
Expected
|
Expected
|
Expected
|
Risk-free
|
Fair
|
||||||||||||||||
of
Options
|
Term
|
Volatility
|
Dividend
|
Interest
|
Value
|
||||||||||||||||
Type
of Award
|
Term
|
Granted
|
in
Yrs
|
Factor
|
Yield
|
Rates
|
Per
Share
|
||||||||||||||
Non-qualified
stock
options
|
5
Years
|
150,000
|
3.50
|
63.1%
|
0%
|
1.77%
|
$ | 2.20 | |||||||||||||
Total
|
150,000
|
$ | 2.20 |
For the
three months ended March 31, 2010, the Company recognized $553,272 of
compensation expense in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. As
of March 31, 2010, there was approximately $5,851,589 of unrecognized
compensation cost related to unvested stock option awards. This cost
is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of approximately two
years.
For the
three months ended March 31, 2010, a total of 2,653 options were exercised for
total proceeds to the Company of $9,949.
A summary of the changes in outstanding
stock options for the three months ended March 31, 2010, is as
follows:
Weighted
|
||||||||||||||||||
Weighted
|
Weighted
|
Average
|
||||||||||||||||
Average
|
Average
|
Remaining
|
Aggregate
|
|||||||||||||||
Exercise
|
Grant
Date
|
Contractual
|
Intrinsic
|
|||||||||||||||
Shares
|
Price
|
Fair Value
|
Term (Yrs)
|
Value
|
||||||||||||||
Options
Outstanding at
January
1, 2010
|
4,184,503
|
$ | 8.20 | $ | 4.79 |
6.24
|
$ | 216,333 | ||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
Granted
|
150,000
|
$ | 4.75 | $ | 2.20 |
4.75
|
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
Exercised
|
(2,653)
|
$ | 3.75 | $ | 1.29 | |||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
Forfeited
or Expired
|
0
|
$ | 0 | $ | 0 | |||||||||||||
Options
Outstanding at
March
31, 2010
|
4,331,850
|
$ | 8.08 | $ | 4.70 |
5.96
|
$ | 238,750 | ||||||||||
Options
Exercisable at
March
31, 2010
|
2,526,395
|
$ | 8.85 | $ | 5.08 |
5.42
|
$ | 195,911 | ||||||||||
Options
Exercisable and Expected to be
Exercisable
at March 31, 2010
|
4,291,522
|
$ | 8.05 | $ | 4.68 |
5.96
|
$ | 238,750 |
The
aggregate intrinsic value in the table above with respect to options
outstanding, exercisable and expected to be exercisable, is calculated as the
difference between the Company's closing stock price of $4.61 on the last
trading day of the first quarter of 2010 and the exercise price, multiplied by
the number of in-the-money options. This amount represents the total
pre-tax intrinsic value that would have been received by the option holders had
all options been fully vested and all option holders exercised their awards on
March 31, 2010. The intrinsic value on the dates of exercise of 2,653
options exercised in the first quarter of 2010 was $3,034.
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NOTE 7. INCOME
TAXES
During
the first quarter of 2010, we paid $2,632 in federal, state and local income
taxes. At March 31, 2010, we had $0 accrued for federal, state and
local taxes payable by the Company.
We pay
federal, state and local taxes on behalf of our wholly owned subsidiary, Harris
& Harris Enterprises, Inc., which is taxed as a C
Corporation. For the three months ended March 31, 2010, and 2009, our
income tax expense for Harris & Harris Enterprises, Inc., was $2,527 and $0,
respectively.
NOTE 8. CAPITAL
TRANSACTIONS
On
October 9, 2009, we closed a public follow-on offering of 4,887,500 shares of
our common stock at a price of $4.75 per share to the public. The net
proceeds of this offering, after deducting underwriting discounts and offering
costs of $2,000,413, were $21,215,212.
NOTE 9. CHANGE IN
NET ASSETS PER SHARE
The following table sets forth the
computation of basic and diluted per share net increases (decreases) in net
assets resulting from operations for the three months ended March 31, 2010, and
March 31, 2009.
For
the Three Months Ended March 31
|
|||
2010
|
2009
|
||
Numerator
for increase (decrease) in net assets per share
|
$1,687,731
|
$(951,424)
|
|
Denominator
for basic weighted average shares
|
30,859,888
|
25,859,573
|
|
Basic
net increase (decrease) in net assets per share resulting
from
operations
|
$0.05
|
$(0.04)
|
|
Denominator
for diluted weighted average shares
|
30,899,721
|
25,859,573
|
|
Diluted
net increase (decrease) in net assets per share resulting
From
operations
|
$0.05
|
$(0.04)
|
For the three months ended March 31,
2010, the calculation of net increase in net assets resulting from operations
per diluted share includes 39,833 stock options from the March 2009 grant
because such options were dilutive. All other options granted in the
period from June 2006 through March 2010 were anti-dilutive. Stock
options may be dilutive in future periods in which there is a net increase in
net assets resulting from operations, or in the event that there are significant
increases in the average stock price in the stock market or significant
decreases in the amount of unrecognized compensation cost.
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NOTE
10. CONTINGENCIES
On April
15, 2010, one of our privately held portfolio companies signed a non-binding
term sheet to raise additional funding from a third party, independent financial
investor at a price per share higher than that of the previous
round. The price per share in this term sheet was not an input used
by our Valuation Committee to determine this portfolio company's value at March
31, 2010. The closing date proposed in the term sheet is May 19,
2010. However, there can be no assurance that this transaction will
be consummated. In the event that this transaction is completed, it
could be a material input to the determination of the value of our shares of
this portfolio company at June 30, 2010. A valuation calculated based
on this input alone could increase the value of this portfolio company at June
30, 2010, ranging from $0 to approximately $8,150,000 or $0 to approximately
$0.26 per share, from the value at March 31, 2010. In the event that
this transaction is completed, the price per share of this financing will be one
of many inputs used by our Valuation Committee, which is comprised of all of our
independent directors, to set the value of this portfolio company at June 30,
2010.
NOTE
11. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
On April
8, 2010, we made a $600,000 follow-on investment in a privately held tiny
technology portfolio company.
On April
15, 2010, NeoPhotonics Corporation filed a registration statement on Form S-1 to
register its shares of common stock for an initial public offering
("IPO"). There can be no assurance that this company will
successfully complete an IPO, and a variety of factors, including stock market
and general business conditions, could lead it to terminate such efforts to
complete an IPO.
On April
21, 2010, we made a $125,000 follow-on investment in ABS Materials,
Inc.
On April
23, 2010, we made a $339,760 follow-on investment in SiOnyx, Inc.
On May 4,
2010, we made a $250,000 follow-on investment in a privately held tiny
technology portfolio company.
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HARRIS
& HARRIS GROUP, INC.
FINANCIAL
HIGHLIGHTS
(Unaudited)
|
Three Months Ended March 31
|
||||||||
2010
|
2009
|
|||||||
Per
Share Operating Performance
|
||||||||
Net
asset value per share, beginning of period
|
$ | 4.35 | $ | 4.24 | ||||
Net
operating loss*
|
(0.07 | ) | (0.08 | ) | ||||
Net
realized (loss) on investments*
|
(0.00 | ) | 0.00 | |||||
Net
decrease in unrealized
depreciation
on investments held*(1)
|
0.12 | 0.04 | ||||||
Total
from investment operations*
|
0.05 | (0.04 | ) | |||||
Net
increase as a result of stock-based
compensation
expense*
|
0.02 | 0.02 | ||||||
Net
increase as a result of proceeds
from
exercise of options
|
0.00 | 0.00 | ||||||
Total
increase from capital stock transactions
|
0.02 | 0.02 | ||||||
Net
asset value per share, end of period
|
$ | 4.42 | $ | 4.22 | ||||
Stock
price per share, end of period
|
$ | 4.61 | $ | 3.70 | ||||
Total
return based on stock price
|
0.9 | % | (6.33 | )% | ||||
Supplemental
Data:
|
||||||||
Net
assets, end of period
|
$ | 136,360,282 | $ | 109,215,327 | ||||
Ratio
of expenses to average net assets
|
1.6 | % | 1.9 | % | ||||
Ratio
of net operating loss to average net assets
|
(1.6 | )% | (1.9 | )% | ||||
Number
of shares outstanding, end of period
|
30,862,246 | 25,859,573 |
* Based
on Average Shares Outstanding
(1)
Net unrealized gains (losses) includes rounding adjustments to reconcile change
in net asset value per share. See Item 2. "Management's Discussion
and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" for a description
of unrealized losses on investments.
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of this schedule.
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Item
2.
|
Management's
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations
|
The information contained in this
section should be read in conjunction with the Company's unaudited March 31,
2010, Consolidated Financial Statements and the Company's audited 2009
Consolidated Financial Statements and notes thereto.
Background
and Overview
We incorporated under the laws of the
state of New York in August 1981. In 1983, we completed an initial
public offering ("IPO"). In 1984, we divested all of our assets
except Otisville BioTech, Inc., and became a financial services company with the
investment in Otisville as the initial focus of our business
activity.
In 1992, we registered as an investment
company under the 1940 Act, commencing operations as a closed-end,
non-diversified investment company. In 1995, we elected to become a
BDC subject to the provisions of Sections 55 through 65 of the 1940
Act.
We are a
venture capital company that specializes in making investments in companies
commercializing and integrating products enabled by nanotechnology and
microsystems. Nanotechnology is the study of structures measured in
nanometers, which are units of measurement in billionths of a
meter. Microsystems are measured in micrometers, which are units of
measurement in millionths of a meter. We sometimes use "tiny
technology" to describe both of these disciplines.
We
consider a company to fit our investment thesis if the company employs or
intends to employ technology that we consider to be at the microscale or smaller
and if the employment of that technology is material to its business
plan. We define venture capital investments as the money and
resources made available to privately held start-up firms and privately held and
publicly traded small businesses with exceptional growth
potential. By making these investments, we seek to provide our
shareholders with a specific focus on nanotechnology and microsystems through a
portfolio of venture capital investments that address a variety of markets and
products.
We
believe that we are the only publicly traded BDC making venture capital
investments exclusively in nanotechnology and microsystems. We
believe we provide three core benefits to our shareholders. First, we
are an established firm with a track record of investing in venture
capital-backed companies. Second, we provide shareholders with access
to emerging companies that commercialize and integrate products enabled by
nanotechnology and microsystems that are generally privately
owned. Third, we provide access to venture capital investments in a
vehicle that, unlike private venture capital firms, is both transparent and
liquid.
We have
discretion in the investment of our capital. Primarily, we invest in
illiquid equity securities. Generally, these investments take the
form of preferred stock, are subject to restrictions on resale and have no
established trading market. Throughout our corporate history, we have
made primarily early-stage venture capital investments in a variety of
industries. These businesses can range in stage from pre-revenue to
generating positive cash flow. These businesses tend to be thinly
capitalized, unproven, small companies that lack management depth, have little
or no history of operations and are developing unproven
technologies.
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As of
March 31, 2010, $83,014,946, or 60 percent, of our total assets at fair value
consisted of private venture capital investments, net of unrealized depreciation
of $10,566,189. As of December 31, 2009, $77,797,086, or 57 percent,
of our total assets at fair value consisted of private venture capital
investments, net of unrealized depreciation of $14,293,994. As of
March 31, 2010, $552,454, or less than one percent, of our total assets at
market value consisted of publicly traded venture capital investments, net of
unrealized appreciation of $5,150.
Historical
Investments
Since our investment in Otisville in
1983 through March 31, 2010, we have made a total of 88 venture capital
investments, including four private placement investments in securities of
publicly traded companies. We have exited 55 of these 88 investments,
realizing total gross proceeds of $143,930,719 on our cumulative invested
capital of $71,854,116.
Historically, as measured from first
dollar in to last dollar out, the average and median holding periods for the 55
investments we have exited were 4.0 years and 3.3 years,
respectively.
In 1994, we invested in our first
nanotechnology company, Nanophase Technologies
Corporation. Recognizing the potential of nanotechnology, we
continued to monitor developments in the field. From August 2001
through March 31, 2010, all 46 of our initial investments have been in companies
commercializing or integrating products enabled by nanotechnology or
microsystems. From August 2001 through March 31, 2010, we have
invested a total (before any subsequent write-ups, write-downs or dispositions)
of $118,423,820 in these companies. We currently have 33 companies in
our portfolio, including one investment made prior to 2001. At March
31, 2010, from first dollar in, the average and median holding periods for these
33 investments were 4.3 years and 3.9 years, respectively.
Investment
Pace
The following is a summary of our
initial and follow-on investments in nanotechnology from January 1, 2006, to
March 31, 2010. We consider a "round led" to be a round where we were
the new investor or the leader of a set of investors in an investee
company. Typically, but not always, the lead investor negotiates the
price and terms of the deal with the investee company.
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2006
|
2007
|
2008
|
2009
|
Three
Months
Ended
March
31, 2010
|
|||||
Total
Incremental Investments
|
$24,408,187
|
$20,595,161
|
$17,779,462
|
$12,334,051
|
$1,675,058
|
||||
Investments
in Privately Held Companies
|
|||||||||
No.
of New Investments
|
6
|
7
|
4
|
1
|
1
|
||||
No.
of Follow-On Investment Rounds
|
14
|
20
|
25
|
27
|
7
|
||||
No.
of Rounds Led
|
7
|
3
|
4
|
5
|
3
|
||||
Average
Dollar Amount – Initial
|
$2,383,424
|
$1,086,441
|
$683,625
|
$250,000
|
$250,000
|
||||
Average
Dollar Amount – Follow-On
|
$721,974
|
$649,504
|
$601,799
|
$436,490
|
$168,083
|
||||
Investments
in Publicly Traded Companies
|
|||||||||
No.
of New Investments
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
1
|
||||
No.
of Follow-On Investment Rounds
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
2
|
3
|
||||
Average
Dollar Amount – Initial
|
$0
|
$0
|
$0
|
$99,624
|
$99,957
|
||||
Average
Dollar Amount – Follow-On
|
$0
|
$0
|
$0
|
$99,602
|
$49,507
|
We have a robust deal flow in privately
held companies operating at various stages of maturity. Technology
platforms and interesting intellectual property estates are being formed in
specific areas of nanotechnology that may be interesting on their own or
combined with our existing nanotechnology companies. With our current
portfolio, with our current asset size and with the current state of the venture
capital market, we are primarily focused on examining private company
opportunities at the earliest stages of maturity and at later stages of
maturity. In early-stage private companies, we are looking for
opportunities where there is the potential for generating near-term revenue and
where we will have the opportunity to own greater than five percent of the
company at the time of exit. In late-stage private companies, we are
looking for opportunities where the company has a clear path to revenue growth,
where there is a near-term exit opportunity and where we believe the current
round of financing may be the last round of private financing. We are
currently planning to invest between five and seven million dollars over the
life of each of our investments in private companies.
For new
and follow-on investments, we generally syndicate with other venture capital
firms, high-net-worth individuals and corporate investors. We plan to
continue this approach, while taking into account that the current economic and
venture capital turmoil has decreased the availability of capital to many of our
potential co-investors. This situation may reduce the number of
potential co-investors available to us when forming syndicates.
We
believe recent market dynamics present opportunities to invest in
micro-capitalization publicly traded companies. Additionally, in July
2008, the SEC adopted a rule providing that companies with a fully diluted
market capitalization below $250 million would be considered "good" BDC
investments. We believe this rule provides new opportunities under
our current structure as a BDC. We began investing in such
opportunities actively in 2009.
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Our
approach to investing in publicly traded companies is similar to that of
privately held companies, albeit with a shorter investment timeframe of one to
three years versus five to seven years for private venture capital
investments. The liquidity of these investments and our intention to
hold these investments for a shorter period of time potentially enables us to
increase the overall liquidity of our venture capital
portfolio. We focus on:
|
·
|
micro-capitalization
companies listed on a national securities exchange or on the
over-the-counter (OTC) markets;
|
|
·
|
companies
that we think have exceptional growth
potential;
|
|
·
|
companies
that operate in markets in which we are familiar because our privately
held venture-backed companies operate in these
markets;
|
|
·
|
opportunities
where our experience in emerging technology provides insight into
competitive advantages;
|
|
·
|
companies
with products enabled by nanotechnology that have competitive advantages
and shorter times to commercial launch than those of similar privately
held companies;
|
|
·
|
opportunities
where there is a disparity in valuation of similar publicly traded and
privately held companies;
|
|
·
|
companies
that have not been widely discovered or followed by the investment
community; and
|
|
·
|
opportunities
where the addition of capital to the investee company enables it to reach
a critical milestone, and where the capital is the main factor in
decreasing the risk of meeting that
milestone.
|
We may also invest in companies that
have known pending events such as regulatory approvals, potential events such as
merger and acquisition ("M&A") transactions or transitions from OTC to a
national securities exchange that may drive liquidity and stock-price
appreciation.
Importance
of Availability of Liquid Capital
Private
venture capital funds that we typically co-invest with are structured commonly
as limited partnerships with a committed level of capital and finite
lifetime. Capital is "called" from limited partners to make
investments and pay for expenses of running the firm at various points within
the lifetime of the fund. For each initial investment, the fund must
reserve additional capital for follow-on investments at later stages of the life
of the portfolio companies. These follow-on investments are required
because often venture-backed portfolio companies in areas in which we invest
operate with negative cash flow for lengthy periods of time. In
general, the cumulative total of initial invested capital and reserves cannot
exceed the committed level of capital of the fund.
Our
strategy for investing capital is similar to this approach in some
respects. We make initial investments in portfolio companies and
project the amount of capital that may be required should the company mature
successfully. These projections, equivalent to the reserves of
private venture capital funds, are reviewed weekly by management, are updated
frequently and are a component of the data that guide our decisions on whether
to make new and follow-on investments. As a publicly traded,
internally managed venture capital company, our cash used to make investments
and pay expenses is held by us and not called from external sources when
needed. Accordingly, it is crucial that we operate the company with a
substantial balance of liquid capital for this reason and for four additional
reasons.
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|
1)
|
We
manage the company and our investment pace and criteria such that our
projected needs for capital to make new and follow-on investments do not
exceed the total of our liquid investments. Although we use
best efforts to predict when this capital will be required for use in new
and follow-on investments, we cannot predict with certainty the timing for
these investments. We would be unable to make new or follow-on
investments in our portfolio companies without having substantial liquid
resources of capital available to
us.
|
|
2)
|
Venture
capital firms traditionally invest beside other venture capital firms in a
process called syndication. The size of the fund and the amount
of capital reserves available to syndicate partners is often an attribute
that potential co-investors consider when deciding on syndicate
partners. As we do not have committed capital from limited
partners, we believe we must have adequate available liquid capital on our
balance sheet to be able to have access to high-quality deal flow and to
co-invest with top-tier venture capital
firms.
|
|
3)
|
We
rarely commit the total amount of cumulative capital intended for
investment in any portfolio company at one point in
time. Instead, our investments consist of multiple rounds of
financing of a given portfolio company, in which we typically participate
if we believe that the merits of such an investment outweigh the
risks. We also commonly have preemptive rights to invest
additional capital in our portfolio companies. These rights
have value, and sometimes are necessary to protect and potentially
increase the value of our positions in our portfolio companies as they
mature. Commonly, the terms of such financings also include
penalties for those investors that do not invest in these subsequent
rounds of financing. Without available capital at the time of
investment, our ownership in the company would be subject to these
penalties that can lead to a partial or complete loss of the capital
invested prior to that round of
financing.
|
|
4)
|
We
may have the opportunity to increase ownership in late rounds of financing
in some of our most mature companies. Many private venture
capital funds that invested in these companies are reaching the end of the
term associated with their limited partnerships. This issue may
limit the available capital to these funds for follow-on investments, and
the ability to take advantage of potentially valuable terms given to those
who have investable capital. Having permanent, liquid capital
available for investment allows us to take advantage of these
opportunities as they arise. In the fourth quarter of 2009, we
had such an opportunity in NeoPhotonics Corporation, one of our most
mature companies.
|
Our principal objective is to achieve
long-term capital appreciation, rather than current income. We cannot
rely on current income to provide adequate capital for our venture capital
investments and the timing of long-term capital gains is
uncertain. We believe, therefore, that the appropriate balance of
highly liquid capital is essential to our business.
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Involvement
with Portfolio Companies
The 1940 Act requires that BDCs offer
to "make available significant managerial assistance" to portfolio
companies. We are actively involved with our portfolio companies
through membership on boards of directors, as observers to the boards of
directors and/or through frequent communication with management. As
of March 31, 2010, we held at least a board seat or observer rights on 26 of our
31 privately held portfolio companies (84 percent). We do not hold
board seats or observer rights on our two publicly traded portfolio
companies.
We may hold two or more board seats in
early-stage portfolio companies or those in which we have significant
ownership. We currently hold two board seats in Ancora
Pharmaceuticals, Enumeral Technologies, and Laser Light Engines. We
may transition off of the board of directors to an observer role as our
portfolio companies raise additional capital from new investors, as they mature
or as they are able to attract independent members who have relevant industry
experience and contacts. We also typically step off the board of
directors upon the completion of an IPO.
We may be actively involved in the
formation and development of business strategies of our earliest stage portfolio
companies. This involvement may include hiring management, licensing
intellectual property, securing space and raising additional
capital. We also provide managerial assistance to late-stage
companies looking for potential exit opportunities by leveraging our status as a
public company through our relationships with the banking community and our
knowledge and experience implementing and complying with Section 404 of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Commercialization
of Nanotechnology by Our Portfolio Companies
Our nanotechnology investments have
matured around three main industry clusters: cleantech (43.3 percent of our
venture capital portfolio as of March 31, 2010); electronics, including
semiconductors (25.6 percent of our venture capital portfolio as of March 31,
2010); and healthcare/biotechnology (14.3 percent of our venture capital
portfolio as of March 31, 2010). We call these three areas "Nanotech
for CleantechSM,"
"Nanotech for ElectronicsSM," and
"Nanotech for HealthcareSM,"
respectively. We have and may continue to make investments outside
these industry areas, and we may not maintain these industry clusters or the
weightings within these clusters.
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These
three clusters are comprised of multi-billion dollar industries that have grown
historically through technological innovation. "Cleantech" is a term
used commonly to describe products and processes that solve global problems
related to resource constraints. We classify Nanotech for
CleantechSM
companies as those that seek to improve performance, productivity or efficiency,
and to reduce environmental impact, waste, cost, energy consumption or raw
materials using nanotechnology-enabled solutions.
We
classify Nanotech for ElectronicsSM
companies as those that use nanotechnology to address problems in
electronics-related industries, including semiconductors.
We
classify Nanotech for HealthcareSM
companies as those that use nanotechnology to address problems in
healthcare-related industries, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and
medical devices.
We
believe the development and commercialization of nanotechnology-enabled
solutions are the result of the convergence of traditionally separate scientific
disciplines such as biology, materials science, chemistry, electronics,
information technology, and physics. We believe such
nanotechnology‐enabled advances
in each of these industry clusters, and in general, could not otherwise occur
within one discipline alone.
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We define market domains as groupings
of technology that enable new user, business or economic experiences. There are
many billion-dollar market domains within each of the above listed industry
clusters. These market domains hold the potential for effecting substantial
change in everyday life. Our experience is that technology adoption
occurs on two time scales. Existing market domains can allow for
rapid adoption as new technologies are continuously added to the existing
domain. These new technologies refine and improve the existing
experience provided by the market domain. Emerging market domains
often require more time for the adoption of technology than existing market
domains, as the new market domain is itself being absorbed by society and the
economy.
We classify our portfolio companies
into either existing market domains or emerging market domains. We expect that
the time scale at which these companies mature commercially will be impacted by
whether their technology is being adopted into an existing market domain or an
emerging market domain. In addition to the characteristics we look
for when investing in private companies outlined on page 45, we continue to look
for investment opportunities in emerging market domains, as we believe these
investments have the potential to create outsized venture capital
returns.

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Maturity
of Current Venture Capital Portfolio
Our venture capital portfolio is
composed of companies at varying maturities facing different types of
risks. We have defined these levels of maturity and sources of risk
as: 1) Early Stage / Technology Risk, 2) Mid Stage / Market Risk and 3) Late
Stage / Execution Risk. Early-stage companies have a high degree of
technical, market and execution risk, which is typical of initial investments by
venture capital firms, including us. These companies often require
substantial development of their technologies before they begin introducing
products to market. Mid-stage companies are those that have overcome
most of the technical risk associated with their products and are now focused on
addressing the market acceptance for their products. For those
companies developing therapeutics or medical devices, the focus is on bringing
their products through the first phases of clinical
trials. Late-stage companies are those that have determined there is
a market for their products, and they are now focused on sales execution and
scale. Late-stage healthcare and biotechnology companies are
typically either in Phase III Clinical Trials, which are the pivotal trials
before a possible FDA approval and commercial launch of a product, or are
generating revenue from the commercial sale of one or more
products. The chart below shows our assessment of the stage of
maturity of our 33 portfolio companies.
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We expect
some of our portfolio companies to transition between stages of maturity
over time. This transition may be forward if the company is maturing and
is successfully executing its business plan or may be backward if the company is
not successfully executing its business plan or decides to change its business
plan substantially from its original plan.
Our two
new investments in the first quarter of 2010 included one early-stage company,
ABS Materials, Inc., and one late-stage company, Satcon Technology
Corporation. From December 31, 2009, to March 31, 2010, we
transitioned one company, Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Inc., from being
classified as a mid-stage company to an early-stage company.
We
currently have 21 privately held companies in our venture capital portfolio that
generate revenues ranging from nominal to significant from commercial sales of
products and/or services enabled by nanotechnology and microsystems, from
commercial partnerships and/or from government grants.
On April 15, 2010, NeoPhotonics
Corporation filed a registration statement on Form S-1 to register its shares of
common stock for an IPO. There can be no assurance that this
company will successfully complete an IPO, and a variety of factors, including
stock market and general business conditions, could lead it to terminate such
IPO.
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Current
Business Environment
The first
quarter of 2010 concluded with the public markets having their fourth
consecutive positive quarter, with the general economic decline appearing to
level off and with the same number of IPOs of venture-backed companies in the
quarter as in all of 2009. However, recent events related to
sovereign debt issues in Europe have created a return to high volatility in the
financial markets. Additionally, if these issues continue to
intensify or spread to other countries, they could derail the nascent and
tenuous economic recovery. Additionally, even within this improving
general economic environment, the availability of capital for venture capital
firms and venture-backed companies continues to be
limited. This conclusion is supported in part by data from the
National Venture Capital Association indicating that venture capital investment
in the first quarter of 2010 was down nine percent in investment amount and 18
percent in the number of deals compared to the fourth quarter of
2009.
The first
quarter of 2010 included venture-backed exits through M&A similar in pace
and amount to that during the fourth quarter of 2009, and it included eight IPOs
of venture-backed companies. The median amount of cash paid in an
M&A transaction and the number of IPOs, both in terms of number and amount
of capital raised, remains historically low. These data support our
belief that the increases in the value of publicly traded companies do not
necessarily correspond with the ability of investors to exit privately held
companies. As such, we expect that it may take significantly more
time for the exit market for venture-backed companies to recover from the
current economic turmoil than the public stock markets. Additionally,
any increase in volatility in the financial markets may impact opportunities for
IPOs. We continue to believe the lack of liquidity will negatively
affect the amount of capital available to privately held companies from venture
capital firms.
Many of
our portfolio companies have negative cash flow and, therefore, need additional
rounds of financing to continue operations. Historically, this
capital typically comes from the existing venture capital syndicate as well as
new investors. As a result of the economic downturn and the tight
availability of capital for investment by venture capital firms, the existing
investors in a syndicate are increasingly required to provide this capital
without the participation of new investors. This limited market for
capital to invest also affects existing members of syndicates of
investors. Some of these co-investors are unable to invest their full
pro rata amount of a round of financing, if at all, which results in a fractured
syndicate. A fractured syndicate can result in a portfolio company
being unable to raise additional capital to fund operations. The
portfolio company may be forced to sell before reaching its full potential or be
shut down entirely if the remaining investors cannot financially support the
company.
Our
overall goal remains unchanged, which is to maintain our leadership position in
investing in nanotechnology and microsystems and to increase our net asset
value. The current environment for venture capital financings favors
those firms that have capital to invest regardless of the stage of the investee
company. We have historically not used leverage or debt financing when making an
investment; thus, we continue to finance our new and follow-on investments from
our cash reserves, currently invested in U.S. treasury
obligations. We believe the turmoil of the venture capital industry
and the current economic climate provide opportunities to invest this capital at
historically low valuations in new and existing portfolio companies of varying
maturities.
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Valuation
of Investments
We value our private venture capital
investments each quarter as determined in good faith by our Valuation Committee,
a committee of all the independent directors, within guidelines established by
our Board of Directors in accordance with the 1940 Act. (See
"Footnote to Consolidated Schedule of Investments" contained in "Consolidated
Financial Statements.")
The
values of privately held, venture capital-backed companies are inherently more
difficult to assess at any single point in time because securities of these
types of companies are not actively traded. We believe, perhaps even
more than in the past, that illiquidity, and the perception of illiquidity, can
affect value. We continue to believe that private valuations may be
slower to respond to improving economic conditions than publicly traded
companies partially because their securities are illiquid.
Difficult
venture environments can result in weak companies not receiving financing and
being subsequently closed down with a loss to venture investors, and/or strong
companies receiving financing but at significantly lower valuations than the
preceding financing rounds. The current state of the venture capital
market limits the availability of capital for investment by venture capital
firms. Increasingly, existing investors in a syndicate are required
to provide capital without the participation of new investors. Some
of these existing investors are unable to invest their full pro rata amount of a
round of financing, if at all, which results in a fractured
syndicate. A fractured syndicate can result in a portfolio company
being unable to raise additional capital to fund operations regardless of the
potential of the intellectual property or the business of the portfolio
company. The portfolio company may be forced to sell before reaching
its full potential or be shut down entirely if the remaining investors cannot
financially support the company. These scenarios may adversely affect
value.
Many
venture capital firms, including us, are evaluating their investment portfolios
carefully to assess future potential capital needs. In the current
business climate, this evaluation may result in a decrease in the number of
companies we decide to finance going forward or may increase the number of
companies we decide to sell before reaching their full potential. If
we decide to proceed with a follow-on investment, these rounds of financing may
occur at valuations lower than those at which we originally
invested. Our ownership in portfolio companies that we decide to stop
funding may be subject to punitive actions that reduce or eliminate
value. Such actions could result in an unprofitable investment or a
complete loss of invested funds. These decisions resulted in punitive
actions to our preferred ownership in three of our portfolio companies, which,
when combined with additional factors, results in a value of $0 of our
securities of these companies as of March 31, 2010.
Non-Performance
Risk
As part of the valuation process, we
consider non-performance risk. Non-performance risk is the risk that
a portfolio company will be: (a) unable to raise capital, will need to be shut
down and will not return our invested capital; or (b) able to raise capital, but
at a valuation significantly lower than the implied post-money
valuation. Our best estimate of the non-performance risk of our
portfolio companies has been quantified and included in the valuation of the
companies as of March 31, 2010. In the future, as these companies
receive terms for additional financings or are unable to receive additional
financing and, therefore, proceed with sales or shutdowns of the business, we
expect the contribution of the discount for non-performance risk to vary in
importance in determining the values of our securities of these
companies. As of March 31, 2010, non-performance risk was a
significant factor in determining the values of 12 of our 31 private portfolio
companies. These 12 companies accounted for approximately $26.6 million of the total value
of our privately held venture capital portfolio.
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In each of the years in the period 2006
through 2009, and for the three months ended March 31, 2010, the Company
recorded the following gross write-ups in privately held securities as a
percentage of net assets at the beginning of the year ("BOY"), gross write-downs
in privately held securities as a percentage of net assets at the beginning of
the year, and change in value of private portfolio securities as a percentage of
net assets at the beginning of the year.
2006
|
2007
|
2008
|
2009
|
Three Months Ended
March 31, 2010
|
|||||
Net
Asset Value, BOY
|
$117,987,742
|
$113,930,303
|
$138,363,344
|
$109,531,113
|
$134,158,258
|
||||
Gross
Write-Downs During Year
|
$(4,211,323)
|
$(7,810,794)
|
$(39,671,588)
|
$(12,845,574)
|
$(2,579,946)
|
||||
Gross
Write-Ups During Year
|
$279,363
|
$11,694,618
|
$820,559
|
$21,631,864
|
$6,307,752
|
||||
Gross
Write-Downs as a Percentage of Net Asset Value, BOY
|
-3.57%
|
-6.86%
|
-28.67%
|
-11.7%
|
-1.9%
|
||||
Gross
Write-Ups as a Percentage of Net Asset Value,
BOY
|
0.24%
|
10.26%
|
0.59%
|
19.7%
|
4.7%
|
||||
Net
Change as a Percentage of Net Asset Value, BOY
|
-3.33%
|
3.40%
|
-28.08%
|
8.0%
|
2.8%
|
From
December 31, 2009, to March 31, 2010, the value of our private venture capital
portfolio increased by $5,217,860 from $77,797,086 to
$83,014,946. The table below indicates some of the inputs used to
determine value of our privately held portfolio companies and the portion of the
change in value, on a quarter over quarter basis, relevant to those
inputs. It should be noted that our Valuation Committee takes into
account multiple sources of quantitative and qualitative inputs to ultimately
determine the value of our privately held portfolio companies.
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Q4
2009 to
Q1
2010
|
Q3
2009 to
Q4
2009
|
Q2
2009 to
Q3
2009
|
Q1
2009 to
Q2
2009
|
|
Value
of Private Portfolio as of Previous Quarter
|
$77,797,086
|
$69,876,210
|
$63,959,811
|
$58,793,688
|
Value
of Private Portfolio as of Current Quarter
|
$83,014,946
|
$77,797,086
|
$69,876,210
|
$63,959,811
|
Examples
of Inputs that Contribute to Changes in Value
|
||||
Total
New and Follow-On Investments
|
$1,426,580
|
$4,698,782
|
$3,884,893
|
$2,728,373
|
(+)
Due to Terms of New Equity Rounds of Financing
|
$1,436,628
|
$5,229,990
|
$4,725,316
|
$2,898,224
|
(-)
Due to Terms of New Equity Rounds of Financing
|
$0
|
$0
|
$(1,967,156)
|
$(53,846)
|
(+)
Due to (+) in Values of Comparables
|
$2,151,404
|
$1,938,047
|
$2,823,833
|
$680,485
|
(-)
Due to (-) in Values of Comparables
|
$0
|
$(6,313)
|
$0
|
$(30,050)
|
(+)
Due to (-) in Non-Performance Risk
|
$2,511,106
|
$500,000
|
$0
|
$1,049,480
|
(-)
Due to (+) in Non-Performance Risk
|
$(2,307,768)
|
$(4,795,765)
|
$(3,794,138)
|
$(2,437,523)
|
Other
Factors1
|
$(90)
|
$356,135
|
$243,6512
|
$330,980
|
Total
Change in Value of Private Portfolio from Quarter to
Quarter
|
$5,217,860
|
$7,920,876
|
$5,916,399
|
$5,166,123
|
1 Other
factors include changes in accrued bridge note interest, currency fluctuations
and the value of warrants.
2 Includes
changes in the capital account of Exponential Business Development
Company.
The values of publicly traded
comparables on March 31, 2010, were significant factors in determining the
values of three of our 31 privately held portfolio companies. These
three companies accounted for approximately $14.0 million of the total value of
our venture capital portfolio at March 31, 2010. These values could
differ materially if calculated on a different date due to changes in values of
the publicly traded comparables.
As of March 31, 2010, our top ten
investments by value accounted for approximately 68 percent of the value of our
venture capital portfolio. As of that date, we believe at least three
of these companies will require additional invested capital by the end of
2010.
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The increase or decrease in the value
of our venture capital investments does not affect the day-to-day operations of
the Company, as we have no debt and fund our venture capital investments and
daily operating expenses from interest earned and proceeds from the sales of our
investments in U.S. government and agency obligations. As of March
31, 2010, we held $53,160,430 in U.S. government obligations.
Investment
Objective
Our principal objective is to achieve
long-term capital appreciation, rather than current income, by making venture
capital investments. We seek to reach the point where future growth
is financed through reinvestment of our capital gains from these
investments. Therefore, a significant portion of our investment
portfolio provides little or no income in the form of dividends or
interest. We earn interest income from fixed-income securities,
including U.S. government and agency securities. The amount of
interest income we earn varies with the average balance of our fixed-income
portfolio and the average yield on this portfolio. Interest income is
secondary to capital gains and losses in our results of operations.
In previous years, we have been able
to generate substantial
amounts of interest income from our holdings of U.S. treasury
securities. As of March 31, 2010, we held two U.S. treasury
securities, with maturity dates of less than six months, yielding approximately
0.06 percent. As of March 31, 2010, yields for 3-month, 6-month, and
12-month U.S. treasury securities were 0.16 percent, 0.24 percent and 0.41
percent, respectively. With yields at this level, we expect to
generate less interest income than in previous fiscal quarters and
years.
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Results
of Operations
We present the financial results of our
operations utilizing GAAP for investment companies. On this basis,
the principal measure of our financial performance during any period is the net
increase (decrease) in our net assets resulting from our operating activities,
which is the sum of the following three elements:
Net
Operating Income (Loss) - the difference
between our income from interest, dividends, and fees and our operating
expenses.
Net
Realized Gain (Loss) on Investments - the difference between
the net proceeds of sales of portfolio securities and their stated cost, plus
income from interests in limited liability companies.
Net
Increase (Decrease) in Unrealized Appreciation or Depreciation on
Investments - the net unrealized change in the value of our investment
portfolio.
Owing to the structure and objectives
of our business, we generally expect to experience net operating losses and seek
to generate increases in our net assets from operations through the long term
appreciation of our venture capital investments. We have relied, and
continue to rely, on proceeds from sales of investments, rather than on
investment income, to defray a significant portion of our operating
expenses. Because such sales are unpredictable, we attempt to
maintain adequate working capital to provide for fiscal periods when there are
no such sales.
Three
months ended March 31, 2010, as compared to the three months ended March 31,
2009
In the three months ended March 31,
2010, we had a net increase in net assets resulting from operations of
$1,687,731. In the three months ended March 31, 2009, we had a net
decrease in net assets resulting from operations of $951,424.
Investment Income and
Expenses:
We had net operating losses of
$2,112,678 and $2,098,879 for the three months ended March 31, 2010, and March
31, 2009, respectively. The variation in these results is primarily
owing to the changes in investment income and operating expenses, including
non-cash expense of $553,272 in 2010 and $635,638 in 2009 associated with the
granting of stock options. During the three months ended March 31,
2010, and 2009, total investment income (loss) was $79,073 and $(23,561),
respectively. During the three months ended March 31, 2010, and 2009,
total operating expenses were $2,191,751 and $2,075,318,
respectively.
During the three months ended March 31,
2010, as compared with the same period in 2009, investment income increased,
reflecting an increase in interest income from bridge notes, as well as an
increase in our average holdings of U.S. government securities, offset by a
substantial decrease in interest rates. During the three months ended
March 31, 2010, our average holdings of such securities were $54,156,767, as
compared with $52,001,080 during the three months ended March 31,
2009. The average yield on our U.S. government securities decreased
from 0.29 percent for the three months ended March 31, 2009, to 0.06 percent for
the three months ended March 31, 2010.
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Operating expenses, including non-cash,
stock-based compensation expense, were $2,191,751 and $2,075,318 for the three
months ended March 31, 2010, and March 31, 2009, respectively. The
increase in operating expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2010, as
compared to the three months ended March 31, 2009, was primarily owing to
increases in salaries, benefits and stock-based compensation expense,
professional fees, directors' fees and expenses and custody fees, offset by a
decrease in administration and operations expense and rent
expense. Salaries, benefits and stock-based compensation expense
increased by $1,937, or less than one percent, through March 31, 2010, as
compared with March 31, 2009, primarily as a result of a decrease in non-cash
expense of $82,366 associated with the Harris & Harris Group, Inc. 2006
Equity Incentive Plan (the "Stock Plan"), offset by an increase in salaries and
benefits owing primarily to an accrual for year-end employee bonuses of $73,500
and to an increase in salary of two of our employees. While the
non-cash, stock-based compensation expense for the Stock Plan increased our
operating expenses by $553,272, this increase was offset by a corresponding
increase to our additional paid-in capital, resulting in no net impact to our
net asset value. The non-cash, stock-based compensation expense and
corresponding increase to our additional paid-in capital may increase in future
quarters. Professional fees
increased by $28,119, or 13.1 percent, for the three months ended March 31,
2010, as compared with the same period in 2009, primarily as a result of an
increase in certain legal and consulting fees, offset by a reduction in certain
accounting fees. Directors' fees and expenses increased by $10,852,
or 12.8 percent, through March 31, 2010, as compared with March 31, 2009,
primarily as a result of one additional meeting held during the
quarter. Custody fees increased by $17,138, or 249.8 percent, as
compared with the same period in 2009, owing to the higher fees charged by our
new custodian, the Bank of New York Mellon, who has more expertise in working
with investment companies. For the quarter ended March 31, 2010, we
had a loss of $68,038 as a result of abandoning our lease at our former office
prior to the end of the lease term which expired in April
2010. Administration and operations expense decreased by $7,913, or
2.7 percent, through March 31, 2010, as compared with March 31, 2009, primarily
as a result of a decrease in our directors' and officers' liability insurance
expense and decreases in the expenses related to the annual report and proxy,
offset by increases in the cost of non-employee-related insurance, increases in
managing directors' travel-related expenses and expenses associated with the
relocation of our corporate headquarters in New York City. Rent
expense decreased $848, or 1.1 percent, for the period ended March 31, 2010, as
compared with the three months ended March 31, 2009. Our rent expense
of $77,215 for the three months ended March 31, 2010, includes $31,842 of rent
paid in cash and $45,373 of non-cash rent expense, credits and abatements that
we recognize on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
Realized Income and Losses
from Investments:
During the three months ended March 31,
2010, and March 31, 2009, we realized net losses on investments of $11,523 and
$3,613, respectively.
During the three months ended March 31,
2010, we realized net losses of $11,523, consisting primarily of realized gains
on the sale of U.S. government securities, offset by realized losses on the
disposal of fixed assets.
During the three months ended March 31,
2009, we realized net losses of $3,613, consisting primarily of a realized loss
in Exponential Business Development Company.
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Net Unrealized Appreciation
and Depreciation of Portfolio Securities:
During the three months ended March 31,
2010, net unrealized depreciation on total investments decreased by $3,814,564,
or 26.5 percent, from net unrealized depreciation of $14,378,869 at December 31,
2009, to net unrealized depreciation of $10,564,305 at March 31,
2010. During the three months ended March 31, 2009, net unrealized
depreciation on total investments decreased by $1,151,448, or 3.38 percent, from
net unrealized depreciation of $34,097,196 at December 31, 2008, to net
unrealized depreciation of $32,945,748 at March 31, 2009.
During
the three months ended March 31, 2010, net unrealized depreciation on our
venture capital investments decreased by $3,805,387, from net unrealized
depreciation of $14,366,426 at December 31, 2009, to net unrealized depreciation
of $10,561,039 at March 31, 2010, owing primarily to increases in the valuations
of the following investments held:
Investment
|
Amount of
Write-Up
|
|||
BridgeLux,
Inc.
|
$ | 1,443,475 | ||
Ensemble
Discovery Corporation
|
500,000 | |||
Mersana
Therapeutics, Inc.
|
975,813 | |||
Metabolon,
Inc.
|
76,162 | |||
NeoPhotonics
Corporation
|
1,543,752 | |||
Orthovita,
Inc.
|
71,784 | |||
Questech
Corporation
|
7,210 | |||
Satcon
Technology Corporation
|
5,797 | |||
SiOnyx,
Inc.
|
1,076,154 | |||
Xradia,
Inc.
|
600,447 |
The
write-ups for the three months ended March 31, 2010, were partially offset by
decreases in the valuations of the following investments held:
Investment
|
Amount
of
Write-Down
|
|||
BioVex
Group, Inc.
|
$ | 1,999 | ||
Kovio,
Inc.
|
1,414,490 | |||
Molecular
Imprints, Inc.
|
8,250 | |||
Nextreme
Thermal Solutions, Inc.
|
1,101,314 | |||
PolyRemedy,
Inc.
|
53,893 |
We had an
increase owing to foreign currency translation of $84,739 on our investment in
D-Wave Systems, Inc.
Unrealized
depreciation on our U.S. government securities portfolio decreased from $12,443
at December 31, 2009, to $3,266 at March 31, 2010.
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During
the three months ended March 31, 2009, net unrealized depreciation on our
venture capital investments decreased by $1,182,057, from net unrealized
depreciation of $34,124,848 at December 31, 2008, to net unrealized depreciation
of $32,942,791 at March 31, 2009, owing primarily to increases in the valuations
of our investments in BioVex Group, Inc., of $5,841 and Solazyme, Inc., of
$5,376,988, offset by decreases in the valuations of the following investments
held:
Investment
|
Amount
of
Write-Down
|
|||
Ancora
Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
|
$ | 400,000 | ||
BridgeLux,
Inc.
|
983 | |||
Crystal
IS, Inc.
|
332,238 | |||
CSwitch
Corporation
|
20,286 | |||
Exponential
Business Development Company
|
366 | |||
Kovio,
Inc.
|
5,729 | |||
Laser
Light Engines, Inc.
|
500,000 | |||
Mersana
Therapeutics, Inc.
|
3,757 | |||
Metabolon,
Inc.
|
362,831 | |||
Molecular
Imprints, Inc.
|
4,000 | |||
Nanosys,
Inc.
|
1,342,530 | |||
Neophotonics
Corporation
|
58,651 | |||
Questech
Corporation
|
29,189 | |||
SiOnyx,
Inc.
|
1,076,155 |
We also
had an increase in unrealized depreciation of $3,288 owing to a decrease in the
capital account of Exponential Business Development Company. We had a
decrease owing to foreign currency translation of $67,345 on our investment in
D-Wave Systems, Inc. Unrealized appreciation on our U.S. government
securities portfolio decreased from $27,652 at December 31, 2008, to unrealized
depreciation of $2,957 at March 31, 2009.
Financial
Condition
March
31, 2010
At March 31, 2010, our total assets and
net assets were $138,757,450 and $136,360,282, respectively. At
December 31, 2009, they were $136,109,101 and $134,158,258,
respectively.
At March 31, 2010, net asset value per
share ("NAV") was $4.42, as compared with $4.35 at December 31,
2009. At March 31, 2010, our shares outstanding increased to
30,862,246 from 30,859,593 at December 31, 2009.
Significant developments in the three
months ended March 31, 2010, included an increase in
the holdings of our venture capital investments of $5,543,919 and a decrease in
our holdings of U.S. government obligations of $2,787,151. The
increase in the value of our venture capital investments from $78,023,481 at
December 31, 2009, to $83,567,400 at March 31, 2010, resulted primarily from an
increase in the net value of our venture capital investments of $3,805,387 and
by two new and 10 follow-on investments of $1,675,058. The decrease
in the value of our U.S. government obligations from $55,947,581 at December 31,
2009, to $53,160,430 at March 31, 2010, is primarily owing to the payment of
cash basis operating expenses of $1,533,742 and to new and follow-on venture
capital investments totaling $1,675,058.
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The following table is a summary of
additions to our portfolio of venture capital investments made during the three
months ended March 31, 2010:
New
Investments
|
Amount
of
Investment
|
|||
ABS
Materials, Inc.
|
$ | 250,000 | ||
Satcon
Technology Corporation
|
99,957 | |||
Follow-On
Investments
|
Amount
of
Investment
|
|||
$ | ||||
Ancora
Pharmaceuticals Inc.
|
500,000 | |||
BridgeLux,
Inc.
|
250,041 | |||
Laser
Light Engines, Inc.
|
250,000 | |||
Mersana
Therapeutics, Inc.
|
87,500 | |||
Mersana
Therapeutics, Inc.
|
84,475 | |||
NeoPhotonics
Corporation
|
2,455 | |||
NeoPhotonics
Corporation
|
2,109 | |||
Orthovita,
Inc.
|
98,427 | |||
Satcon
Technology Corporation
|
22,134 | |||
Satcon
Technology Corporation
|
27,960 | |||
Total
|
$ | 1,675,058 |
The following tables summarize the
values of our portfolios of venture capital investments and U.S. government
obligations, as compared with their cost, at March 31, 2010, and December 31,
2009:
March 31, 2010
|
December 31, 2009
|
|||||||
Venture
capital investments, at cost
|
$ | 94,128,439 | $ | 92,389,907 | ||||
Net
unrealized depreciation(1)
|
10,561,039 | 14,366,426 | ||||||
Venture
capital investments, at value
|
$ | 83,567,400 | $ | 78,023,481 | ||||
March 31, 2010
|
December 31, 2009
|
|||||||
U.S.
government obligations, at cost
|
$ | 53,163,696 | $ | 55,960,024 | ||||
Net
unrealized depreciation(1)
|
3,266 | 12,443 | ||||||
U.S. government obligations, at
value
|
$ | 53,160,430 | $ | 55,947,581 |
(1)At
March 31, 2010, and December 31, 2009, the net accumulated unrealized
depreciation on investments was $10,564,305 and $14,378,869,
respectively.
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Liquidity
Our liquidity and capital resources
are generated and generally available through our cash holdings, interest earned
on our investments on U.S. government securities, cash flows from the sales of
U.S. government securities, proceeds from periodic follow-on equity offerings
and realized capital gains retained for reinvestment.
We fund
our day-to-day operations using interest earned and proceeds from the sales of
our investments in U.S. government securities. The increase or
decrease in the valuations of our portfolio companies does not impact our daily
liquidity. At March 31, 2010, and December 31, 2009, we had no
investments in money market mutual funds. We have no debt
outstanding, and, therefore, are not subject to credit agency
downgrades.
At March 31, 2010, and December 31,
2009, our total net primary liquidity was $54,181,225 and $57,642,233,
respectively. Our primary liquidity is comprised of our cash, U.S.
government securities, receivables from unsettled trades, receivables from
portfolio companies and interest receivables. The decrease in our
primary liquidity from December 31, 2009, to March 31, 2010, is primarily owing
to the use of funds for investments and payment of net operating
expenses.
At March 31, 2010, and December 31,
2009, our secondary liquidity was $552,454 and $226,395,
respectively. Our secondary liquidity consists of our publicly traded
securities. Although these companies are publicly traded, their stock
may not trade at high volumes and prices can be volatile, which may restrict our
ability to sell our positions at any given time.
Although
we cannot predict future market conditions, we continue to believe that our
current cash and U.S. government security holdings and our ability to adjust our
investment pace will provide us with adequate liquidity to execute our current
business strategy.
Except
for a rights offering, we are also generally not able to issue and sell our
common stock at a price below our net asset value per share, exclusive of any
distributing commission or discount, without shareholder approval. As
of March 31, 2010, our net asset value was $4.42 per share and our closing
market price was $4.61 per share. We do not currently have
shareholder approval to issue or sell shares below our net asset value per
share.
Capital
Resources
On
October 9, 2009, we completed the sale of 4,887,500 shares of our common stock
at a price of $4.75 per share to the public for total gross proceeds of
$23,215,625; net proceeds of this offering, after deducting underwriting
discounts and offering costs of $2,000,413, were $21,215,212. We
intend to use, and have been using, the net proceeds of this offering to make
new investments in nanotechnology, as well as for follow-on investments in our
existing venture capital investments and for working capital. Through
March 31, 2010, we have used $8,950,835 of the net proceeds from this offering
for these purposes.
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Critical
Accounting Policies
The Company's significant accounting
policies are described in Note 3 to the Consolidated Financial Statements and in
the Footnote to the Consolidated Schedule of Investments. Critical
accounting policies are those that are both important to the presentation of our
financial condition and results of operations and those that require
management’s most difficult, complex or subjective judgments. The
Company considers the following accounting policies and related estimates to be
critical:
Valuation of Portfolio
Investments
The most
significant estimate inherent in the preparation of our consolidated financial
statements is the valuation of investments and the related amounts of unrealized
appreciation and depreciation of investments recorded. As a BDC, we
invest in primarily illiquid securities that generally have no established
trading market.
Investments
are stated at "value" as defined in the 1940 Act and in the applicable
regulations of the SEC and GAAP. Value, as defined in Section
2(a)(41) of the 1940 Act, is (i) the market price for those securities for which
a market quotation is readily available and (ii) the fair value as determined in
good faith by, or under the direction of, the Board of Directors for all other
assets. (See "Valuation Procedures" in the "Footnote to Consolidated
Schedule of Investments.") As of March 31, 2010, our financial
statements include private venture capital investments valued at $83,014,946,
the fair values of which were determined in good faith by, or under the
direction of, the Board of Directors. As of March 31, 2010,
approximately 60.8 percent of our net assets represent investments in portfolio
companies valued at fair value by the Board of Directors.
Determining fair value requires that
judgment be applied to the specific facts and circumstances of each portfolio
investment, although our valuation policy is intended to provide a consistent
basis for determining fair value of the portfolio
investments. Factors that may be considered include, but are not
limited to, readily available public market quotations; the cost of the
Company’s investment; transactions in the portfolio company’s
securities or unconditional firm offers by responsible parties; the financial
condition and operating results of the company; the long-term potential of the
business and technology of the company; the values of similar securities issued
by companies in similar businesses; multiples to revenues, net income or EBITDA
that similar securities issued by companies in similar businesses receive; the
proportion of the company’s securities we own and the nature of any rights to
require the company to register restricted securities under the applicable
securities laws; the achievement of milestones; and the rights and preferences
of the class of securities we own as compared with other classes of securities
the portfolio has issued.
The
difficult venture capital environment continues to make it extremely difficult
for many companies to raise capital. Moreover, the cost of capital
has increased substantially. Historically, difficult venture capital
environments have resulted in weak companies not receiving financing and being
subsequently closed down with a loss of investment to venture investors, and/or
strong companies receiving financing but at significantly lower valuations than
the preceding venture rounds, leading to very deep dilution for those who do not
participate in the new rounds of investment. This economic and
financing environment has caused an increase in the non-performance risk for
venture capital-backed companies. Our best estimate of the
non-performance risk of our portfolio companies has been quantified and included
in the valuation of the companies at March 31, 2010.
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All investments recorded at fair value
are categorized based upon the level of judgment associated with the inputs used
to measure their fair value. Hierarchical levels related to the
amount of subjectivity associated with the inputs to fair valuation of these
assets, are as follows:
|
·
|
Level
1: Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for
identical assets or liabilities.
|
|
·
|
Level
2: Quoted prices in active markets for similar assets or
liabilities, or quoted prices for identical or similar assets or
liabilities in markets that are not active, or inputs other than quoted
prices that are observable for the asset or
liability.
|
|
·
|
Level
3: Unobservable inputs for the asset or
liability.
|
At March
31, 2010, all of our private portfolio investments were classified as Level 3 in
the hierarchy, indicating a high level of judgment required in their
valuation.
The
values assigned to our assets are based on available information and do not
necessarily represent amounts that might ultimately be realized, as these
amounts depend on future circumstances and cannot be reasonably determined until
the individual investments are actually liquidated or become readily
marketable. Upon sale of investments, the values that are ultimately
realized may be different from what is presently estimated. This
difference could be material.
Stock-Based
Compensation
Determining the appropriate fair-value
model and calculating the fair value of share-based awards on the date of grant
requires judgment. Historically, we have used the
Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model to estimate the fair value of employee
stock options. During the quarter ended March 31, 2010, we used the
Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model to estimate the fair value of the
five-year NQSOs granted on March, 18, 2010.
Management
uses the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model in instances where we lack
historical data necessary for more complex models and when the share award terms
can be valued within the model. Other models may yield fair values
that are significantly different from those calculated by the
Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model.
Management
uses a binomial lattice option pricing model in instances where it is necessary
to include a broader array of assumptions. We used the binomial
lattice model for the 10-year NQSOs granted on March 18, 2009. These
awards included accelerated vesting provisions that are based on market
conditions. At the date of the grant, management’s analysis concluded
that triggering of the market condition acceleration clause is
probable.
Option
pricing models require the use of subjective input assumptions, including
expected volatility, expected life, expected dividend rate, and expected
risk-free rate of return. Variations in the expected volatility or
expected term assumptions have a significant impact on fair value. As
the volatility or expected term assumptions increase, the fair value of the
stock option increases. The expected dividend rate and expected
risk-free rate of return are not as significant to the calculation of fair
value. A higher assumed dividend rate yields a lower fair value,
whereas higher assumed interest rates yield higher fair values for stock
options.
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In the
Black-Scholes-Merton model, we use the simplified calculation of expected term
as described in the SEC’s Staff Accounting Bulletin 107 because of the lack of
historical information about option exercise patterns. In the
binomial lattice model, we use an expected term that assumes the options will be
exercised at two-times the strike price because of the lack of option exercise
patterns. Future exercise behavior could be materially different than
that which is assumed by the model.
Expected volatility is based on the
historical fluctuations in the Company's stock. The Company's stock
has historically been volatile, which increases the fair value of the underlying
share-based awards.
GAAP requires us to develop an estimate
of the number of share-based awards that will be forfeited owing to employee
turnover. Quarterly changes in the estimated forfeiture rate can have
a significant effect on reported share-based compensation, as the effect of
adjusting the rate for all expense amortization after the grant date is
recognized in the period the forfeiture estimate is changed. If
the actual forfeiture rate proves to be higher than the estimated forfeiture
rate, then an adjustment will be made to increase the estimated forfeiture rate,
which would result in a decrease to the expense recognized in the financial
statements. If the actual forfeiture rate proves to be lower than the
estimated forfeiture rate, then an adjustment will be made to decrease the
estimated forfeiture rate, which would result in an increase to the expense
recognized in the financial statements. Such adjustments would affect
our operating expenses and additional paid-in capital, but would have no effect
on our net asset value.
Pension and Post-Retirement
Benefit Plan Assumptions
The
Company provides a Retiree Medical Benefit Plan for employees who meet certain
eligibility requirements. Several statistical and other factors that
attempt to anticipate future events are used in calculating the expense and
liability values related to our post-retirement benefit plans. These
factors include assumptions we make about the discount rate, the rate of
increase in healthcare costs, and mortality, among others.
The
discount rate reflects the current rate at which the post-retirement benefit
liabilities could be effectively settled considering the timing of expected
payments for plan participants. In estimating this rate, we consider
the Citigroup Pension Liability Index in the determination of the appropriate
discount rate assumptions. The weighted average rate we utilized to
measure our post retirement medical benefit obligation as of December 31,
2009, and to calculate our 2010 expense was 5.72 percent. A rate of
6.55 percent was used in determining the 2008 expense and a rate of 5.71 percent
was used in calculating the 2008 benefit obligation. We used a
discount rate of 5.75 percent to calculate our pension obligation.
Recent
Developments — Portfolio Companies
On April 8, 2010, we made a $600,000
follow-on investment in a privately held tiny technology portfolio
company.
On April 15, 2010, NeoPhotonics
Corporation filed a registration statement on Form S-1 to register its shares of
common stock for an initial public offering ("IPO"). There can
be no assurance that this company will successfully complete an IPO, and a
variety of factors, including stock market and general business conditions,
could lead it to terminate such efforts to complete an
IPO.
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On April
15, 2010, one of our privately held portfolio companies signed a non-binding
term sheet to raise additional funding from a third party, independent financial
investor at a price per share higher than that of the previous
round. The price per share in this term sheet was not an input used
by our Valuation Committee to determine this portfolio company's value at March
31, 2010. The closing date proposed in the term sheet is May 19,
2010. However, there can be no assurance that this transaction will
be consummated. In the event that this transaction is completed, it
could be a material input to the determination of the value of our shares of
this portfolio company at June 30, 2010. A valuation calculated based
on this input alone could increase the value of this portfolio company at June
30, 2010, ranging from $0 to approximately $8,150,000 or $0 to approximately
$0.26 per share, from the value at March 31, 2010. In the event that
this transaction is completed, the price per share of this financing will be one
of many inputs used by our Valuation Committee, which is comprised of all of our
independent directors, to set the value of this portfolio company at June 30,
2010.
On April 21, 2010, we made a $125,000
follow-on investment in ABS Materials, Inc.
On April 23, 2010, we made a $339,760
follow-on investment in SiOnyx, Inc.
On May 4, 2010, we made a $250,000
follow-on investment in a privately held tiny technology portfolio
company.
Forward-Looking
Statements
The information contained herein may
contain "forward-looking statements" based on our current expectations,
assumptions and estimates about us and our industry. These
forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. Words
such as "believe," "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "plan," "will,"
"may," "might," "could," "continue" and other similar expressions identify
forward-looking statements. In addition, any statements that refer to
expectations, projections or other characterizations of future events or
circumstances are forward-looking statements. Our actual results
could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements
as a result of several factors more fully described in "Risk Factors" and
elsewhere in this Form 10-Q, and in our Form 10-K for the year ended December
31, 2009. The forward-looking statements made in this Form 10-Q
relate only to events as of the date on which the statements are
made. We undertake no obligation to update publicly any
forward-looking statements for any reason, even if new information becomes
available or other events occur in the future.
Item
3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market
Risk.
Our business activities contain
elements of risk. We consider the principal types of market risk to
be valuation risk, interest rate risk and foreign currency
risk. Although we are risk-seeking rather than risk-averse in our
investments, we consider the management of risk to be essential to our
business.
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Valuation
Risk
Value, as defined in Section 2(a)(41)
of the 1940 Act, is (i) the market price for those securities for which market
quotations are readily available and (ii) fair value as determined in good faith
by, or under the direction of, the Board of Directors for all other
assets. (See the "Valuation Procedures" in the "Footnote to
Consolidated Schedule of Investments" contained in "Item 1. Consolidated
Financial Statements.")
Because there is typically no public
market for our interests in the small privately held companies in which we
invest, the valuation of the equity interests in that portion of our portfolio
is determined in good faith by our Valuation Committee, comprised of the
independent members of our Board of Directors, in accordance with our Valuation
Procedures. In the absence of a readily ascertainable market value,
the determined value of our portfolio of equity interests may differ
significantly from the values that would be placed on the portfolio if a ready
market for the equity interests existed. Any changes in valuation are
recorded in our Consolidated Statements of Operations as "Net decrease
(increase) in unrealized depreciation on investments." Changes in
valuation of any of our investments in privately held companies from one period
to another may be volatile.
Investments in privately held, immature
companies are inherently more volatile than investments in more mature
businesses. Such immature businesses are inherently fragile and easily
affected by both internal and external forces. Our investee companies can
lose much or all of their value suddenly in response to an internal or external
adverse event. Conversely, these immature businesses can gain suddenly in
value in response to an internal or external positive development.
Interest
Rate Risk
We generally also invest in both short
and long-term U.S. government and agency securities. To the extent
that we invest in short and long-term U.S. government and agency securities,
changes in interest rates result in changes in the value of these obligations
that result in an increase or decrease of our net asset value. The
level of interest rate risk exposure at any given point in time depends on the
market environment, the expectations of future price and market
movements, and the quantity and duration of long-term U.S.
government and agency securities held by the Company, and it will vary from
period to period. If the average interest rate on U.S. government
securities with three-month maturities which correspond to the maturities of the
Company's holdings at March 31, 2010, were to increase by 25, 75 and 150 basis
points, the average value of these securities held by us at March 31, 2010,
would decrease by approximately $132,901, $398,703 and $797,406, respectively,
and our net asset value would decrease correspondingly.
In
addition, in the future, we may from time to time opt to borrow money to make
investments. Our net investment income will be dependent upon the
difference between the rate at which we borrow funds and the rate at which we
invest such funds. As a result, there can be no assurance that a
significant change in market interest rates and the current credit crisis will
not have a material adverse effect on our net investment income in the event we
choose to borrow funds for investing purposes.
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Foreign
Currency Risk
Most of our investments are denominated
in U.S. dollars. We currently have one investment denominated in
Canadian dollars. We are exposed to foreign currency risk related to
potential changes in foreign currency exchange rates. The potential
loss in fair value on this investment resulting from a 10 percent adverse change
in quoted foreign currency exchange rates is $320,344 at March 31,
2010.
Item
4. Controls and Procedures
(a) Disclosure Controls and
Procedures. As of the end of the period covered by this
report, the Company’s management, under the supervision and with the
participation of our chief executive officer and chief financial officer,
conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our
disclosure controls and procedures (as required by Rules 13a-15 of the 1934
Act). Disclosure controls and procedures means controls and other
procedures of an issuer that are designed to ensure that information required to
be disclosed by the issuer in the reports that it files or submits under the
1934 Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within time periods
specified in the SEC's rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated
and communicated to the issuer's management, as appropriate, to allow timely
decisions regarding required disclosures. As of March 31, 2010, based
upon this evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures, our chief
executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that our disclosure
controls and procedures were effective.
(b) Changes in Internal Control Over
Financial Reporting. There have not been any changes in
the Company's internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined
in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the 1934 Act) during the first quarter of
2010 to which this report relates that have materially affected, or are
reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over
financial reporting.
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PART
II. OTHER INFORMATION
Item
1A. Risk Factors
Investing
in our common stock involves significant risks relating to our business and
investment objective. You should carefully consider the risks and
uncertainties described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 2009, before you purchase any of our common stock.
The risks
described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K are not the only risks facing our
Company. Unknown additional risks and uncertainties, or ones that we currently
consider immaterial, may also impair our business. If any of these
risks or uncertainties materialize, our business, financial condition or results
of operations could be materially adversely affected. In this event,
the trading price of our common stock could decline, and you could lose all or
part of your investment. In addition to the risks described in our
Annual Report on Form 10-K, you should also consider the following
risk:
The
market price of our shares of common stock may be adversely affected by the sale
of shares by our management or founding stockholder.
Sales of
our shares of common stock by our officers through 10b5-1 plans or by our
founding stockholder could adversely and unpredictably affect the price of those
securities. Additionally, the price of our shares of common stock
could be affected even by the potential for sales by these
persons. We cannot predict the effect that any future sales of our
common stock, or the potential for those sales, will have on our share
price. Furthermore, due to relatively low trading volume of our
stock, should one or more large stockholders seek to sell a significant portion
of its stock in a short period of time, the price of our stock may
decline.
Our
portfolio companies face risks associated with international sales.
We
anticipate that certain of our portfolio companies could generate revenue from
international sales. Risks associated with these potential future
sales include:
|
·
|
Political
and economic instability;
|
|
·
|
Export
controls and other trade
restrictions;
|
|
·
|
Changes
in legal and regulatory
requirements;
|
|
·
|
U.S.
and foreign government policy changes affecting the markets for the
technologies;
|
|
·
|
Changes
in tax laws and tariffs;
|
|
·
|
Convertibility
and transferability of international currencies;
and
|
|
·
|
International
currency exchange rate
fluctuations.
|
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Any of
these factors could have a material adverse effect on the business, results of
operations and financial condition of our portfolio
companies. Currency exchange rate fluctuations may negatively affect
the cost of portfolio company products to international customers and therefore
reduce their competitive position.
Item
5.
|
Exhibits
|
|
10.1
|
Harris
& Harris Group, Inc. Employee Stock Purchase Plan, incorporated by
reference as Exhibit 10.14 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K
(File No. 814-00176) filed on March 16,
2010.
|
|
31.01*
|
Certification
of CEO pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of
2002.
|
|
31.02*
|
Certification
of CFO pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of
2002.
|
|
32*
|
Certification
of CEO and CFO pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to
Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of
2002.
|
*filed
herewith
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has caused this report to be
signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
Harris
& Harris Group, Inc.
/s/ Daniel
B. Wolfe
By: Daniel
B. Wolfe
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Financial Officer
/s/ Patricia N.
Egan
By: Patricia
N. Egan
Chief Accounting Officer
and Vice President
Chief Accounting Officer
and Vice President
Date: May
10, 2010
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EXHIBIT
INDEX
Exhibit
No.
|
Description
|
31.01
|
Certification
of CEO pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of
2002.
|
31.02
|
Certification
of CFO pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of
2002.
|
32
|
Certification
of CEO and CFO pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to
Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of
2002.
|
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